Miltonduff reviews

This is already the fifth cask of Miltonduff bottled by German company Malts of Scotland. I am ashamed to say that I have only tried one of those so far (the 2004 on sherry, which was released in 2015…

Here is another unique whisky from the Belgian club McShelfie. Remember the Stairway to Orkney, in which they transferred some 50 liters to an oloroso sherry octave? They did they exact same with this…

We already know that the boys and girls of the club The Finest Notes have good taste. For their 10th anniversary they bottled a great Glen Keith. But how time flies: that was 5 years ago already. To…

Miltonduff sells most of its production to the blenders. Ballantine’s is their biggest client, followed closely by Teacher’s and Old Smuggler. And the house blends of Chivas Regal, of course. But the…

Duncan Taylor has a series called ‘The Octave’, in which whisky matured in a smaller cask. After all, on octave is only 1/8th of a regular barrel. So maturation is faster as there is more contact with…

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,…

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…