Craigellachie 14 Year Old 1997 Old Malt Cask Douglas Laing

Craigellachie 9 Year Old 2004 Hepburn's Choice

Craigellachie is a working horse that spits around 4 million liters of spirit out of its stills every year. Yet it is not a very well-known malt. This has everything to do with the fact that the lion’s share of production disappears into Dewar’s blend, with their White Horse label as the most important client. So we have to look at independent...

Score 68/100

Craigellachie 17 Year Old

Bacardi's new marketing of the Craigellachie single malt should be studied in an MBA program. Retro-cool packaging, wide distribution, big presence at whisky events and high quality product combine for what I'm sure is a very successful re-launch. The new expressions are 13, 17, 19 and 23 years old. I've tasted the 13 before, it's quite nice, and...

Score 89/100

Craigellachie 9 Year Old 1999 Carn Mor Vintage Collection

The Carn Mor Vintage Collection was launched in 2010, comprising of 24 single casks of the same number of malt distilleries. The 200ml bottles are all at 46% ABV. I got to know them during a tasting session in Ghent. This was the first and so far only Craigellachie that I had tasted so far. Time for a re-taste and put a couple next to it. The nose...

Score 74/100

Craigellachie 10 Year Old 2008 WhiskyBroker

They sure like their PX octaves at WhiskyBroker. This young Craigellachie 2008 was also finished on that small type of sherry cask. I wonder how the malt fared. Well, there is not much left of the rather delicate character of Craigellachie. The PX cask has completely overpowered this malt on the nose. Lots of earthy notes, broth and sour oak...

Score 86/100