Clynelish 1995 15 Year Old Sherry Butt #12798 Signatory

Clynelish 14 Year Old

Nose: Ocean air, wet beach sand and sweat (like the sand thats been stuck on your legs from a long day at the beach), Strong lemon zest, a tiny touch of brown sugar. The combination of salt water and lemons reminds me of those cool months when dad brings home a sack of raw oysters and we spend most of the day shucking them and eating them on the...

Score 80/100

Clynelish 17 Year Old 1996 First Cask

It pays too once in a while clean out your sample cabinet. All the way in the back I found this sample of Clynelish 1996 that was bottled by WIN in 2013. Apparently it is a re-racked Sherry cask. At cask strength, of course. By now this one is nowhere to be found, my apologies (well, not that I can help it, of course). Oh, this is special...

Score 86/100

Clynelish 14 Year Old

Last night I took it upon myself to try a Scottish pub nearby that has quite the selection of Whisky. A huge array. This gem is the Highland Stillhouse in Oregon City, OR. Came for the Whisky, stayed for the company. I ended up meeting the owner of the place, who was sitting at the table next to mine. He happens to be very dear friends with a one...

Score 88/100

Clynelish 15 Year Old SMWS 26.82

The Scotch Malt Whisky Society, founded in 1983, only bottles single casks at cask strength, to be sold exclusively to their members. Their labels are coded, referring to the distillery and the bottling. So this is SMWS 26.82, meaning bottling 82 of distillery 26, i.e. Clynelish. It was dubbed ‘Soft Light at Sunset’. While the nose shows the...

Score 91/100