Scotch Whisky reviews

One of the joys in my life is collecting and tasting the distillery casks that Auchentoshan offers at the end of the tour. These ‘bottle your own’ are excellent casks, all of them, and this is one that…

Eiling Lim – aka Mrs Luc Timmersmans – is a rising star among independent bottlers. In 2015 she released a 23 Year Old Auchentoshan from the very good vintage 1992, but before I noticed it was around,…

One of my friends had the luck to attend the impressive whisky school at Springbank. This, of course, also meant he took part in a warehouse tour where they have a lot more cask slumbering away than…

Now that is a Golden Oldie from my beloved Lowlander. Distilled in 1974 – I was four! – and bottled in the year I turned 21. It was the 5th single cask of Auchentoshan bottled by the Scotch Malt Whisky…

First Cask has bottled quite a few Auchentoshan already, including 6 sister casks from 1981. This is cask #1159, which I discovered on the table at The Whisky Mercenary’s booth at the recent whisky…

The Warehouse Range from German bottler Malts of Scotland always bottles lovely, special and very high quality single casks. It makes me happy that they found this beautiful Auchentoshan, despite its…

At the end of the 1980s my beloved Auchentoshan bottled this 10 Year Old for Scottish Power. It was given out as a gift to their employees, with a matching decanter. The contents, however, is their…

I'm a big fan of Benromach! I adore the 15, the 10/100 is (was) a tour de force and the 10 is, in my humble opinion, possibly the best value ten year old currently available. I've always liked how the…

Carn Mor has launched a new series under the banner Strictly Single Cask. The first Lowlander is this 5 years old Auchentoshan, cut to 50%. It was distilled on 30th May 2013 and bottle on the 29th Oct…

This was a sample of a mystery blended malt given to several of us by @fiddich1980 back in February. It was a fun exercise and this one seemed to divide all of us. I'm fairly certain I liked it more than…