Clynelish 1970 31 Year Old Sherry Finish Douglas Laing Old Malt Cask

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 19 Year Old 1996 Signatory for The Bonding Dram

This very pale Clynelish came from the warehouses of Signatory and was bottled a few years ago by three Flemish whisky shops: The Bonding Dram, The Single Malt Whisky Shop and Prima Vinum. It’s a single cask at cast strength and I presented it recently at a Clynelish/Brora Masterclass in Ghent. The typical beeswax is present on the nose from the...

Score 86/100

Clynelish 17 Year Old 1996 The Whiskyman

In the new series from The Whiskyman, Age Matters, the label discloses that this is a 17 years old single malt. It is a Clynelish from 1996. To find this info, one has to look closely to the side of the label, a statement in which Dominiek wants to stress the importance of aging. It begins on dried fruit, which makes me think this was a sherry...

Score 84/100

Clynelish 15 Year Old Single Malts of Scotland

Single Malts of Scotland is one of the labels from Sukhinder Singh, the man behind the famous London based shop ‘The Whisky Exchange’. On 22 April 2008 he brought 576 bottles of this Clynelish Vintage 1992 (cask ref 1577/1637) to the market. Ah, the nose on this is good. Mineral with the obligatory waxiness. Quite some lime, peach, almonds and...

Score 86/100