Clynelish 1995 16 Year Old Cask #8668 Adelphi

Clynelish 16 Year Old 1997 The Whisky Mercenary for Cask Six

Cask Six is a Belgian club from Mol that celebrated their 10th Anniversary in 2014 with a bottling by The Whisky Mercenary. This is not Jürgen Vromans’ first Clynelish. He already selected two Clynelish from 1997 before and both were great. So I am again expecting a very nice Clynelish. The nose is creamy and round with loads of fruit. Stewed...

Score 89/100

Clynelish 14 Year Old

On the nose my first impression is not great. The first big hit is of straight up harsh spirit. I keep going back but very little emerges. Finally after some water I get less spirit and more grain. There is some underlying muskiness but over all is slightly uninspiring I feel. When I drink it, I feel again that it is slightly drowned out by spirit...

Score 56/100

Clynelish 20 Year Old 1982 Jewels of Scotland

Can someone please explain to me how Lombard was able to bottle a 20 years old Clynelish at 63.3% ABV? I’m sure the only explanation is the fact that the spirit was filled into the cask at a much higher strength, right? I know some like to experiment that way. But this is pretty hefty, so I’ll keep water by my side. Anyway, for me this was the...

Score 86/100

Clynelish 17 Year Old 1997 Signatory UCF

Clynelish 1997... that in itself already sounds magical to my ears. I have been fortunate enough to have tried many Clynelish of that vintage and so far it has always been a party. The expectations for this 17 Year Old are thus quite high. It was bottled by Signatory in their well-known Un-Chillfiltered Series. Andrew vatted two hogsheads and...

Score 86/100