Aultmore reviews

If you say Whiskywarehouse, you say Eric Vermeire, the lovable importer of Gordon & Macphail, Wolfburn, Clan Denny and Murray McDavid for Belgium. In 2018 he selected this 13 years old Aultmore to be…

In an attempt to promote their distilleries, John Dewar & Sons launched the series ‘The Last Great Malts’ in 2014 with releases from Brackla, The Deveron (aka Glen Deveron, so basically from the Macduff…

Aultmore was only really put on the market as single malt in 2014 when owner Dewar’s & Sons launched the so-called Last Great Malts series. Highlight of that series is a 25 years old. But today I find…

To celebrate their 5th anniversary, the Belgian whisky club Whiskytroef (which translates into whisky trump) bottled this young Aultmore from 2006. Only 30 bottles? That must be a shared cask, which is…

Aultmore is a lesser known Speysider that was only ‘revived’ a couple of years ago by owners Dewar’s & Sons in the so-called The Last Great Malts series. For Mark & Manny’s Malts it is an honor to be…

This a preview of an upcoming blog postAultmore was once found mostly in the blended whiskies of John Dewar & Sons (Dewar's White Label, Dewar's 12 Year Old, Dewar's 18 Year Old). It was rarely enjoyed…

Nose: Cereal, fruit salad, vanilla, citrus, peach. Very inviting.Palate: Herbaceous, vinous (Riesling and Chardonnay), syrupy orchard fruit, biscuit, fresh orange blossom.Finish: Sultana, citrus, malt…

Aultmore is one of those lesser known Speysiders that sends most of its production to the blended Scotch market, in this case most notably to the Dewar folks. It has a reputation as being an oaky whisky…

Nose: grassy with hints of aniseed. Sweeter notes lurking beneath; candied ginger?Taste: rich, oily body. Sweet with licorice and tropical fruits. Then a massive surge of oak. Wonderful, lip-smacking…

Boy, I have only tried 4 Aultmore up to now, imagine that. Anyway, for this 5th one I sought out an independent bottling by Wemyss, who released this back in 2013. ‘Sweet Mint Infusion’ is the name. I…