Linkwood reviews

I has only been a few months since I tried a 10 years old Linkwood from The Ultimate, but that was one from 1984, bottled in 1995 from a sherry butt. This is again a 10 years old, but from a completely…

James Eadie is a young independent bottler – started in 2016 – run by Rupert Patrick who started his career in the wine business in 1988, but made the transition to whisky. He worked for MacLeod Disti…

Another Linkwood from 1984, this time bottled by van Wees from Holland in their by now almost legendary The Ultimate series. The Ultimate counts more than 1000 single casks and has slowly garnered som…

Linkwood is one of Diageo’s workhorses that produces primarily for the blenders. Important customers are White Horse, Haig, Bell’s and Dimple. Only a small percentage is bottled as single malt. This…

Blackadder – brainchild of the always crackin’ jokes Robin Tucek – are mostly known for their Raw Cask bottlings, in which some cask residue can be found, giving the malts an air of authenticity. This…

Gordon & Macphail has been a licensed bottler for Linkwood for decades and continues to be. This 15 Year Old is always available. I am trying a recent bottling from 2017, so this is a distillate from the…

This is the second from six samples I'll be reviewing that were kindly sent to me by @wierdo. This, I believe, is from a single bourbon cask.I was warned, rightly so, that this needs water and it will…

Distilled at the Linkwood Distillery on 7 April 2001, this Linkwood was bottled on 24 Oktober 2014, making it 13 years old. A.D. Rattray bottled it at cask strength. The bourbon hogshead yielded 318…

Our Flemish whisky collectif selected a very young Linkwood indeed. It was distilled on 14th May 2008 and bottled on 15th May 2017. So the cask had just celebrated its 8th birthday. It matured on a…

Close to BenRiach and Longmorn - in the heart of Speyside – you can find the Linkwood distillery. She was founded in 1821. She still produces mostly for the blending industry (primarily for White Horse…