Auchentoshan reviews

This Review is dedicated to @Markjedi1 who recently helped me to obtain a sample of a spirit that he feels is worse than Lambertus. I’m not trying that tonight, but in appreciation I’ve pulled out a 50…

Enjoyed this with some new friends at a little bookstore and bar. Cozy place. Nose: Vibrant flowers, honey and citrus. Palate: One word, honeysuckle. If you were fortunate enough as a kid to find some…

Auchentoshan distillery is located on the outskirts of Clydebank, Glasgow just beside the Kilpatrick hills.. The distillery can be traced back to around 1800 when a distillery named as Duntocher was…

It’s not that easy to find a Signatory dumpy these days, let alone at an affordable price. But I was able to put my hands on this 20 years old Auchentoshan. 1984, however, is a year that is the equiva…

This bottling from Murray McDavid is gunned down by almost every blogger that I know for its bitterness and suphery traits, the broken marriage between the spirit and the wine. Climens is a Sauternes…

I’ve been told that Jack Wiebers actually has a history in the music business. He was once the agent for Michael Jackson (the popstar, not the whisky and beer author) during a tour through Europe. Be…

Another dumpy bottle from Signatory, but even older than the one I tried before. This was distilled in 1978 and has been sitting in the bottle since 1996 – that’s 20 years, meaning it has spent more time…

I found this bottle at the very cozy Whisky on a Sunday event in Ghent. I had not seen it before and hence not yet tried it. It was still a third full so I convinced the owner to sell it to me. It was…

Asta Morris, the company run by Bert Bruyneel - or Crazy Bert as I affectionately call him - has finally seen the light and bottled a cask of Auchentoshan. The bulk of the 210 bottles that the single…

Just like the Blood Oak, this Noble Oak was meant for the travel retail market, but that is not where I got it. It is the successor, so the speak, of the Silveroak, which was released as a vintage 1991…