Auchentoshan 12 Year Old Bottled 1980's 75cl

Auchentoshan 18 Year Old 1999 Château Lafite Cadenheads

If you visit Cadenhead’s in Campbeltown, at the end of the tour you can bottle a so-called Cask End. My good friend Chris brought me back this special Auchentoshan from 1999. Special because the whisky, after an initial maturation in a bourbon cask, was re-casked into a Château Lafite cask. Lafite is a wine region in Bordeaux in the city of...

Score 89/100

Auchentoshan 22 Year Old 1990 Tatooine Artisan

Derek Mather is the chef of the famous whisky restaurant Artisan in Wishaw, about a half hour outside of Glasgow. He is also a big Star Wars fan and quite likeable. He has got quite a few one-off bottles with custom Star Wars labels and when I saw his bottle of Auchentoshan with a Tatooine design, I just could not resist. I not only got to try it,...

Score 84/100

Auchentoshan 18 Year Old 2003 SMWS 5.78 Wonder Wheel Ride

At the whisky festival in Ghent, my good friend Chris Lauriers stood behind the table of the Scotch Malt Whisky Society. He beckoned me closer and said, ‘I have something for you’. I saw the number 5.78 on the label and knew immediately that I had to taste it. After all, number 5 means Auchentoshan. It's already the 78th single cask bottled by the...

Score 88/100

Auchentoshan Three Wood

The first time I tried this Three Wood 2 weeks ago, I was a little underwhelmed so much so that I simply put the bottle aside thinking it wasn't for me. Last night I thought I'd try it again. Boy am I glad I did. Big difference... On the nose, I get wood/oak. Caramel (my son said it smells like candy), hints of leather & smoke, spice and of...

Score 85/100