Black Bottle 10 Year Old

Black Bottle

For something that advertises with an Islay taste profile, it's not as peaty/smoky as one might expect. Ralfy's review brought me on this one, but I dont like it as much as he does. It has a spirity character and minimal maltflavor. Nose is thin, taste is flat, lightbodied and the finish is short and not very pleasant. I can taste some Caol Ila,...

Score 70/100

Black Bottle

I first heard about this whisky from Ralfy on Youtube. He really talked it up, saying it could fool connosrs at a bar into thinking it was a real Islay and not some half-azzed teaser. Personally I don't think it could fool a malty monkey (as Ralfy says), unless that malt lover was already on the tipsy side and not up to par with his (or her)...

Score 75/100

Black Bottle 2013

It had been a couple of years since I had last tried the Black Bottle. Thanks to a buddy I was also able to try the 10 Year Old version, which is much better, but at the Spirits in the Sky festival in Belgium, I was offered to take home a sample of the newly formulated Black Bottle. Let us face it, the new packaging looks stunning. The recipe is...

Score 79/100

Black Bottle

Black Bottle has a rich history dating back to 1879. I tasted my first one in 2011 at the whisky festival in Ghent. I cracked my second bottle in 2013, when it was not only given a new look, but also the recipe of the liquid was completely revised. Today I taste a miniature that was filled in 2019 (and surprisingly bottled at 40% instead of the...

Score 79/100