Auchentoshan reviews

On ice at Dry Martini Bar, Madrid. It pours clean and dark orangish amber. Aroma is very high: tobacco, leather, hazelnut, cinnamon and sweet orange. Mouthfeel is pungent, powerful and just slightly…

The boys and girls of the Flander’s Finest Cask Selection visited the warehouses of Andrew Symington and his team at Signatory once more. One of the casks that they selected to bottle – much to my hap…

I honestly think the Cask Strength Collection of Signatory looks beautiful. Those decanters may take up a lot of space in my cabinet, but they look robust and powerful. Only downside: they are awkward…

That Boutique-y Whisky Company – part of Master of Malt – has just released its third Auchentoshan, but this one is special in that regards that it mentions an age of 25 years on the label. That could…

After the Laing brothers split up, Stuart founded his own company Hunter Laing & Co and one of the brands he took with him is the famous Old Malt Cask, in which single casks are bottled at 50%. This…

During the last edition of my by now infamous Toshan Man Birthday Tastings, I opened this official oldie. This 18 Year Old from 1988 is a single cask that was bottled exclusively for Belgium. It is a gem…

If you visit Cadenhead’s in Campbeltown, at the end of the tour you can bottle a so-called Cask End. My good friend Chris brought me back this special Auchentoshan from 1999. Special because the whisky…

This 16 Year Old Auchentoshan also comes from the warehouses of Signatory in Pitlochry and appeared in the Un-Chillfiltered Collection, but was bottled at cask strength. All 195 bottles went toe Tasttoe…

A lot of casks of my beloved Auchentoshan have appeared in the Un-Chillfiltered Collection by Signatory. In November 2016 this 16 Year Old – taken from 2 bourbon barrels – was released. Strangely enough…

Clan Denny is a subsidiary of Douglas Laing & Co. Until recently, they mostly bottled single grain, but since the look of the range changed in July 2017, more and more single malts have been bottled.…