Scotch Whisky reviews

I'lll start by saying that Glenmorangie is a favorite distillery of mine. I can honestly say there is not a Glenmo I have tried and disliked. I just love their style. This one is right at the top, pro…

Douglas Laing, the well known bottler from Glasgow, has bottled quite a few Saint Magdalene from 1982 (a year before the distillery was closed) in their Old Malt Cask series. This means they were bottled…

Saint Magdalene was built in the city of Linlithgow in a place where the Knights Templar had built a hospital to treat lepers in the 12th Century. There was even a time Linlithgow had five operational…

The German bottler Malts of Scotland also has a Glenkinchie, from their first year of operation, i.e. 2009. It matured for 33 long years on a sherry cask. Well, by now we know that Thomas Ewers usually…

Some independent bottlers choose to release casks from Saint Magdalene under the name of the city in which is was founded: Linlithgow. This one is 18 years old and bottled by Scott’s Selection. Oddly…

This Bladnoch was distilled in the ear of United Distillers, so before the Irishman Raymond Armstrong came along in 1995 to take over. The Austrian Single Cask Collection bottled this cask in 2011 after…

Glenkinchie is sometimes referred to as the Edinburgh malt, because the capital is only 25 kilometres to the north. I am trying this Lowlander from a bottling by Signatory, in their cask strength coll…

Nose: First light toffee, with a background of grilled pineapple. There is peat but barely perceptible even when warm. The smoke is not a theme, but used to enhance, making it extremely balanced. The…