Craigellachie 15 Year Old 1997 Cask 9344 Old Malt Cask Douglas Laing

Craigellachie 9 Year Old CWC Exclusive Casks

For this Craigellachie (which means Rocky Hill in Gaelic, by the way) I turn to David Stirk and his Creative Whisky Company. This was finished on a Pedro Ximenze cask and is bottled at the exact same ABV as the A.D. Rattray bottle. So let us keep water handy. The PX dominates the rather delicate and florale Craigellachie character clearly. Candied...

Score 86/100

Craigellachie 11 Year Old 1999 Commitment to Malt

Commitment to Malt is a Dutch whisky club with plenty of members. They often bottle single malts for them (I have tasted a few and even have three of their Auchentoshan in my collection, thanks to my Dutch friend Imanuel). The new bottles finally have a lable worth looking at. This 11 Year Old is a distillate from 1999. The nose is very prickly....

Score 78/100

Craigellachie 13 Year Old

Neat at Hesperia Hotel, Madrid; what was once a superb joint for whisky lovers, that is, the Scotch Bar within the hotel, doesn't exist anymore: Hesperia has been acquired by Hyatt and the old dim-lit den is now another regular bar with a humongous screen for sports: no quietness, no comfort, no more special drams. It's becoming increasingly...

Score 86/100

Craigellachie 13 Year Old

In his review on Whisky Fun Sergé made me chuckle with a remark that if Craigellachie wanted to make their labels any more old fashioned they'd have needed to use hieroglyphics. I think its true of the whisky too. It's a Speysider that doesn't fit the Speysider mould, in the same way that Benromach doesn't. Not a Sherry cask in sight. Something...

Score 84/100