Miltonduff reviews

This Miltonduff was bottled by one of Scotland’s oldest indies: Gordon & Macphail. It was released in their famous Cask Strength series at – doh! – cask strength. It is a first fill sherry cask, which…

Miltonduff is one of the old distilleries, operational since 1824 (or even before that, albeit illegaly). It is one of the malts that gives body and character to blends like Ballantine's, Teacher's, Old…

NOSE: brown sugar, strawberry jam, mint, orange marmalade, herbal, tannic over-brewed black tea, chocolate-covered prunes. TASTE: syrup consistency, but then with time it becomes looser. It explodes in…

While there are hardly any official bottlings (the lion’s share goes into Ballantine’s, Old Smuggler and Teacher’s), Miltonduff is quite easily found with independent bottlers. This is one of those,…

Judging by the dark color of what is in my glass, the spirit of this Miltonduff slept on a rather active sherry cask. First fill, most likely. Anyway, it is young: distilled in 2004 and bottled after 11…

C&S Dram is a German independent bottler run by Andrea Cammineci (the name reveals his Italian roots), who started out as a wine merchant in 2005. Let us try his Miltonduff 1989 from a sherry hogshead…

The reason why Miltonduff is not very well known as a single malt has everything to do with the fact that owners Chivas use the lion’s share of production for blends like Ballantine’s, Teacher’s and Old…

An Octave is a small cask – about an eight of a regular hogshead – and in this case, according to the label, it was a reconstructed ex-sherrywood octave cask. A mouthful. It was released especially for…

I remember trying this malt for the first time at the whisky festival in Ghent in 2014, but I was unable to score a sample at the time. I rectified this at another festival last May. And now I can sit…

The Duncan Taylor Single is a series of single malts of at least 30 years or from distilleries that are no longer operational – or both. There are only 53 bottles of this 30 Year Old Miltonduff! I dis…