Famous Grouse Bar Bottle

Famous Grouse Blended Scotch Whisky

Famous Grouse claims to be Scotland's number one selling blended whisky, selling over 40 million bottles each year. Nose: The nose is very smooth and delicate with flowers and fruit, apples in particular. It is a surprisingly rich nose for such a light whisky. Spices make an appearance after the flowers and fruit. Palate: More apple comes through...

Score 86/100

Snow Grouse

This Grouse obvisously aims at the younger vodka drinkers. You can tell by the packaging and the advise on the label to serve it 'seriously chilled'. 'Smoothchill filtered' is what it says. What the hell? Does anybody know what that trademarked procedure entails? While most distilleries promote the fact that their whisky is non-chill filtered,...

Score 72/100

The Black Grouse

This is the second Whisky i currently have in my collection (small i know). Firstly this has the standard Famous Grouse blend in it but with some other peat based malt added in. This creates in my opinion a more punchy Whisky. NOSE: I was expecting something hard to hit me on the nose but what i was greeted with was a mild smokey almost burnt...

Score 72/100

Famous Grouse 30 Year Old

Nose: Predominantly wood and honey. I feel a "smell of something reserved", a small amount of tobacco Palate: Lots of wood, fruit impressively, but not much, especially canned peaches, finishing with a strong taste of toasted almonds.

Score 85/100