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It pays too once in a while clean out your sample cabinet. All the way in the back I found this sample of Clynelish 1996 that was bottled by WIN in 2013. Apparently it is a re-racked Sherry cask. At cask…

The oldest bottler in Scotland is Gordon & Macphail. In 2020 they celebrated their 125th anniversary. The Connoisseurs Choice is one of their oldest and most popular ranges and has undergone quite a few…

It is well known that the panel comes up with very strange names for their single cask releases. But for this 11 years old Mannochmore from 2003 they made me raise my eyebrows. Ghymkhanas & Gym Class?…

Mannochmore is a surprisingly young distillery, founded by John Haig & Co in 1971. Until 2008 she was run by the crew of the neighbouring distillery Glenlossie. She produces primarily for blenders and…

Mark Watt recently launched his own whisky brand, the wonderfully alliterating What Whisky. The first release included, among other, this young Mannochmore, a vatting of two hogsheads that were finished…

This Mannochmore was bottled by Claxton’s, Which means it comes in that very typical square bottle that reminds me of perfume instead of whiskey. Nevertheless it is a single refill sherry hogshead that…

The famous La Maison du Whisky bottled a series of malts in 2018 under the resounding name Four Styles. The four whisky’s, all at drinking strength, are The Fruity (a Mannochmore 2012), The Malty (an…

This is (I think) the 4th bottle of Lagavulin 12 year old I've opened. For me the Lagavulin 12 year old is the best representation of Lagavulin in their range. The Feis Isle bottle MarkJedi sent me a…

OK, third times the charm, hopefully, for this review ... I've been dabbling in older blends of late and this is the Red counterpart to the Black from the same era I recently reviewed - it was excellent…

Found a bottle of this blended Highland malt at a local mall and bought it just to try. Turns out this scotch is French. Yeah, master blender is fourth generation Robert Fleming and it comes from the…