Scotch Whisky reviews

Glen Albyn’s destiny is even worse than Glen Mhor’s. This distillery – also in Inverness – was also closed in 1983 and demolished to make room for a shopping center. But in Glen Albyn’s case, even the…

Founded in 1896 about a stone’s throw away from Longmorn and BenRiach, this Speyside distillery is now long gone. Coleburn was one of the 28 victims of the large closing round by Diageo in 1983. In the…

There is not a single trace left of the Glen Mhor distillery today. After it was closed in 1983, the buildings were demolished 5 years later to make room for a shopping center. Bar this Rare Malts rel…

The Banff distillery has been silent since 1983. Official bottlings are few and far between. This is one of them: the Banff 1982 in the Rare Malts Selection, bottled in 2004. This is only my 7th encou…

The original Glendullan Distillery was built in 1897 in the heart of Speyside. But a completely new factory was built on the same site in 1972, bigger than the original tripling the capacity. Strangely…

Convalmore was closed in 1985. The site is in ruins. While the brand Convalmore remained with Diageo, the buildings were sold to William Grants & Sons, who still use the warehouses today. This Rare Malts…

The Rare Malts Selection saw the light of day in 1995 by the Scottish Malt Distillers, the precursor to Diageo. Initially it comprised releases from the ’70s, ‘80s and ‘90s distillates from mostly closed…

We all know Compass Box for their Spice Tree, The Peat Monster and the likes, but enfant terrible of the whisky industry John Glaser has bottled quite a few other fun whiskies as well. Today we will try…

This is the oldest official bottling of Caol Ila and was released by Diageo in 2014 in their yearly Special Release. With a price tag of around 600 EUR, it is not exactly a cheap bottle, but thanks to…

Cruach-Mhòna is Gaelic for ‘peatstack’, so I suppose this is going to be a heavily peated Bunna. It comes in 1 liter bottles for travel retail. I tried it for the first time in 2011, but this is a bot…