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batch 13C19Nose: Smells fresh, on honey, rye grain, fir needles crushed, mint, then an assortment of some baking spices with cinnamon and dill/salt. Unabashedly rye. Toast and spun sugar. A little sweet…

Essay 10-RW-ARM-3-LNose: Always interesting, and remains distinct. Funky, with some buttery quality akin to fine aged agave. Ripe and funky fruit, grain, too, banana and apricot. Rye spice - off-sweetly…

(4-21-06/8-14-13)Nose: Thin honey and general light bourbon quality, though there's a bit of acetone and clear alcohol notes at first. With a lot of time, those notes blow off, and malty beer, and lots…

Nose: Syrupy and tightly wound cherries latrices. Brown sugar soup. Soy sauce, smoked Chinese pork ribs (light sulfur?) Moss, earthy mushrooms and old, nourished forest. A little closed, too. With time…

This 1994 vintage Glenrothes (bottled in 2009) is an average offering from this Speyside distillery.It has the typical Speyside nose of nuts (specifically almonds), lots of citrusy vanilla, warm brown…

Kilchoman Summer 2010 46% OB (10/9437 215) bought 12-6-2011 opened 4-4-2-12Some bottles are consistent – they change, but in a predictable way. Other bottles go through radical changes seemingly overn…

This is another pleasant but one dimensional dram from Glenrothes. This particular 1991 vintage was bottled in 2008.The nose is soft and well rounded with the familiar vanilla and citrus overtones.…

I was at a Glenrothes tasting recently and was presented with six different expressions for the evening. While the other five failed to tickle my fancy there was this gem from 1998 (bottled in 2008) that…

This 25 Year Old was part of the Glenrothes tasting I attended recently and after the 1988 vintage was my No 2 pick for the evening. Though some of my colleagues preferred this over the '88 - well, to…

I suspect this 1978 vintage was discovered by accident in the Glenrothes warehouse. And rather than pour it all away the marketing team told the whisky maker to some how fix it and make it drinkable. Of…