Famous Grouse Murrayfield 2005

Famous Grouse Naked Grouse

This little beauty was slipped in as a mystery malt at a single malt tasting recently and everyone was asked to identify it. My guess was The Macallan which made me only half right! This is a lovely no-nonsense blend from Famous Grouse using arguably two of the most famous malts in the world - The Macallan & Highland Park. It is so no-nonsense...

Score 90/100

Famous Grouse Gold Reserve 12 Year Old

The reviewed bottle is 95% full, was opened 11 months ago, and has been preserved with inert gas for the last 9 months. This 12 yo blended Scotch includes malts from Macallan and Highland Park Nose: pretty wine flavours, an attractive light sweet peat and smoke, delicious barley-malt flavours, probably from the Highland Park, and some very...

Score 85/100

Famous Grouse Blended Scotch Whisky

The nose smells of oak and the smell of polished wood. A sweet underbelly of vanilla exists faintly. I was stuck in a cheap bar for this one, reduced to trying a blend. I thought I would give it a go and not be a malt snob. The taste was very much of wood vanish with an ever so slight hint of a better sweet malt trying to fight it's way through....

Score 49/100

Snow Grouse

I first saw this bottle in an international terminal in Malaysia. I knew it was a blend but something about the art of with a picture of a ptarmigan was rather catching. Such a pretty illustration. I kept it in mind and was surprised to see it reach Australia a few months later. Nose: Grain whisky of course, caramel, vanilla, lacking depth. ...

Score 57/100