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Warm Gentle smooth thick fruity arrival develops a long slow clean vegetable finish.

Delicate hay color. Custard, earth, peat, dirt, vanilla wrapped caramel in the nose. Taste is similar to the aroma, but with less sweetness, and more peat smoke. It is still very well balanced though…

Yes another review of Glenfarclas 15 yo. What for! The answer is easy: for batch variation! It is not only A'bunadh that we need to revisit. I thought that another modern classic deserved the same tre…

Jura Prophecy is a small batch peated single malt matured in Limousine oak casks and finished in Oloroso Sherry butts.Not as spicy as the usual Juras. Rough but good, pretty straight forward dram with…

"The Gentle Spirit" as it calls itself on the bottle, polarises in these parts, partly because Jim Murray rated it at 95 pts, and no one else seems to understand why. I was amazed when I discovered that…

The Macphail's Collection contains young whisky, 8 years old each time, but at a very affordable price. The same can be said for this Tamdhu. I have heard that Gordon & Macphail purchase the new make…

Since Ian MacLeod took over the distillery, the Tamdhu range has been overhauled with a completely new, rather retro look. The entry level malt is this Tamdhu 10 Year Old, matured on sherry casks. I put…

This is an older bottling of a 10 Year Old Tamdhu, released in the 1980s for the Italian Cinzano. I put it head to head with the current version of the same whisky, recently revived by the current owner…

Carn Mor releases its more exclusive casks in the series Celebration of the Cask. This Tamdhu was distilled on 11th February 1991 and bottled on 4th November 2013. It matured for 22 years on a sherry…

This bottling by Malts of Scotland fits in the so-called ‘46’-range, in which MoS deviates from the principle of bottling at cask strength, but rather cuts the whisky to the drinking strength of 46%. I…