Auchentoshan reviews

At the whisky festival in Ghent, my good friend Chris Lauriers stood behind the table of the Scotch Malt Whisky Society. He beckoned me closer and said, ‘I have something for you’. I saw the number 5.78…

We will stay with The Ultimate for a while, because through my buddy Marcel from the Netherlands I was able to get a sample of a sister cask, namely bourbon barrel #800257 that was put to sleep in 1999…

The Ultimate barely needs introduction, I think. The Dutch independent bottler van Wees releases single casks under this banner, often at cask strength. Meanwhile, there are more than 1000 and in the run…

Chapter 7 is a Swiss independent bottler, active since 2015, run by a certain Selim Evin. Doesn't sound very Swiss, but what do I know about that? I've tasted an Allt-a-Bhainne, Glen Keith and Tormore…

Provenance is a series by Douglas Laing and I already tasted 3 Auchentoshan bottled under this label, an 11-year-old from 2000, a 12-year-old from 2001 and a 13-year-old from 2002. Douglas Laing released…

A finish on wine casks is always a bit tricky, but Auchentoshan is in my (un)modest opinion one of the few distilleries that manages to do well. And while I've tasted a lot of them, this 17-year-old,…

Our friends from Klubb23 were able to put their hands on an Auchentoshan! Well, I had to hustle, because the release isn't even 70 bottles strong and bottled for the Dram Brothers Whisky Society Grand…

Darkness is a series from Master of Malt in which the whisky is finished for at least three months in small sherry octave casks. In their own words: ‘subtlety, poise and elegance have no place here.’ The…

Just as they did in 2019, Douglas Laing launched a single cask Auchentoshan voor Halloween in 2020. Again a single cask from 1996, now 23 years old. Again it sold out very quickly, for it was a very…

Until 2018 Cellar Trends was the company that distributed Auchentoshan on the home market. It was founded in 1999. To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the collaboration, the company selected a cask from…