Scotch whisky
Whisky distilled, matured for a minimum of 3 years and bottled in Scotland
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Balvenie 17 Years Old Doublewood
More refined and deeper Doublewood experience from The Balvenie. 86/100 Continue reading
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Balvenie 12 Years Old Doublewood
The perennial classic Balvenie 12 Doublewood, the perfect introductory dram and still great today. 84/100 Continue reading
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anCnoc 12 Years Old
A great all-round whisky that introduces you to anCnoc’s range, a lovely mid-weight floral, barley and honeyed fruit, in places more floral, sour and bitter slightly than we last remembered. 84/100 Continue reading
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Royal Lochnagar Triple Matured
Wonderfully complex with a rather odd flavour profile, perhaps too much oak wood, light sherry and berries, but overall I really liked this one! 87/100 Continue reading
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Jura 30 Years Old 1986 Single Cask
Liquid Chantilly cream on red berries and oodles of Jura’s fabulous butterscotch, refined, beautifully deep with that luxurious creamy taste and texture, not much more required. 85/100 Continue reading
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Kilchoman Club 4th Release
Challenging, not overly complex, unusual. Improves with a drop of water as I felt the peat masked a lot of the cask influence and the sweeter Sauternes-influenced notes I was hoping for. 83/100 Continue reading
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Blended Grain #1 50 Years Old Batch 1
At a young 50 years old! This displayed everything that is wonderful about old grain whisky, the sweetness from the Maize & possibly other cereals and what tastes like ex-bourbon American oak maturation have generated a coconut and tropical fruit… Continue reading
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Glen Ord 20 Years Old Batch 1
Preferred at full strength, full of that lemon citrus I associate with Glen Ord spirit, there is a good mixture of both spirit and cask characteristics in here but perhaps spirit wins out a little. Water changed this but not… Continue reading
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Invergordon 43 Years Old 1972 Cask #37
A great old grain with a real intensity of flavours and not too sweet, good herbality but also distinct evidence of grain spirit origin still even after all that time in the cask. A great example of why old grains… Continue reading
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Octomore 8.1
Much more refined and a little less challenging than previous Octomores (from memory!). There is a good sweetness that helps roll that tar, wax and smoke out all over your mouth. 88/100 Continue reading
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