Clynelish reviews

Smells tangy. Lemon peel. Pine smoke. Hasty pudding.Tastes a bit challenging in a good way. Oak. Dried tart fruits. Gloucester cheese. Vanilla. Leather.Lasts for medium length in the mouth. Bitter oak…

Nose: First that hits me is baked banana, some smoke and smells from a farm near the sea like hay, cowdung, salty sea air. Vanilla is there, but nicely hidden between the other smells. Also a sour yellow…

from a friendNose: Crystallized fruit, honey, lemon, vanilla, and that typical Clynelish waxiness. Obviously in a good place. Creamy frosting, bounded by some wood. Lemon cream pie with some vanilla…

Appearance: thin legs in the glass; not coating Attractive colourNose: bourbony presence; short bread, sweet cream, nougat; vanilla beansPalette: a bit more bourbony presence; vanilla; thin mouth feel…

It's been a while since I tried the official 14yo Clynelish, one which I've always thought of as a bit of a cult favourite. I remember an exceptionally dry briney malt from the last time I tried any, …

from a purchased sampleNose: Waxy, honey, and richly fruity. Notes of toffee, apricot, quince, plum jam, and raspberry compote. It's all a bit elegant. There's a nervous quality as it flits back to…

Clynelish 1997 is fast becoming very popular with independent bottlers, it seems. Not that this comes as a surprise. The four previously bottled I tried were all very much to my liking with scores deep…

N: creamy and waxy (a lot of wax!!!). red apple P: not a great body, oily and honeyed F: walnut. quite short

This is from a 375 AD Rattray Cask Collection bottling of 17 YO Clynelish. Distilled June 14 of 1995 and bottled in July 11 of 2012. Casked in bourbon hogshead, so no sherry influence here. Bottled at…

This scotch caught my interest the second it's aromas found my nose. Let's begin there; Nose: Rich buttery sweetness, heavy like fruit cake/hold the fruit. There's no doubt that this is a single malt…