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The Old Ballantruan is a peated malt produced by the Tomintoul distillery and owes its name to the waters of the Ballantruan Spring, nestling in the Cromdale Hills close to Tomintoul. The NAS version has…

ose: Very different . light, leafy, with lemon peel, Autumn leaves, creamier than the younger one, delicate and more refined and not the spoiled brat that is the NAS. Some green Banana, almost no peat…

The title place was not enough, because the title I would have liked to write: The whisky of the kings, the king of whiskies. This reflects to an ancient latin sentence connected to that particular type…

Heavy peated blast gives way to gentale smokey notes of fall leaf raking into burning piles, followed by floral, vanilla, oak. Long slow oily soft peated fruit finish. The best Scotch whisky ever created…

Ginger, Citrus spice, Grainy yeasty excellant mix with Toffee, Vanilla honey ending in short simple finish. Good everyday dram.

The 10 year old is a nice malt, that is well priced (especially in the USA, where I know it costs as low as $20…) but is not really popular where I come from. It’s pretty basic and nice for that price…

Nose: starts with quite some wood. Very fragrant and older. Then to sweet sugars , a lot of spices as in all spice. Cinnamon , lovely play on the sweet fruit vs. spice and stewed fruit ( apple, pear,…

On first inspection this whisky appears to be contained in some kind of a "bottle", apparently made of glass.Not wanting to be half-arsed about writing this review, I thought I'd find out for sure, so…

Really nicely done, as this is a really nice departure from the standard Talisker releases. They switch the whisky over to Oloroso Sherry for finishing. Classic peat and cracked pepper aromas that one…

I so wanted to love this and had such high expectations for this after seeing and reading all the reviews praising this whisky. The nose wasn’t bad, nutty, peanut butter almost, with granny smith apples…