Clynelish 12 Year Old Bottled 1960s

Clynelish 17yo 1992 Cadenhead Bourbon HH

Nose: First that hits me is baked banana, some smoke and smells from a farm near the sea like hay, cowdung, salty sea air. Vanilla is there, but nicely hidden between the other smells. Also a sour yellow grapefruitpeelnote comes later on. Palate: Big sweet barley, cigarsmoke, ginger, honey and a little candlewax. The sweet slowly gives way to...

Score 91/100

Clynelish 14 Year Old

The Clynelish distillery shares terrain with that other distillery, long closed and enjoying a near cult status, Brora (founded in 1819 under the name Clynelish). The current Clynelish distillery was built in 1967, right next to the ‘old’ Clynelish. Since 1968 they produced in tandem, until in August of the same year, the ‘old’ Clynelish was...

Score 84/100

Clynelish 16 Year Old 1997 Carn Mor

Clynelish 1997 is slowly but surely becoming legendary and I like to think it all started with a release that I helped select for The Bonding Dram. That one is still considered, not just by me, to be the best so far, so it is not that much of a self-fulfilling prophecy. This new release by Carn Mor was bottled at drinking strength. Waxy nose on...

Score 86/100

Clynelish 15 Year Old 1997 The Whisky Mercenary for Beproefd

Beproefd.be is a Flemish drinks writers collective of which I know a couple personally. To promote their site, they thought it would be a nice idea to release a limited bottling. In collaboration with The Whisky Mercenary they launched 65 bottles of a cask strength 15 years old Clynelish 1997. I already know that this is a good vintage. On the...

Score 89/100