Glen Scotia 12 Year Old (Old Presentation)

Glen Scotia 5yo

World Whisky Day and I’ve been deprived from whisky for 12 consecutive days, an eternity. Time to change all that, let’s delve into the sample collection and see what we can find. How about an old Glen Scotia from a time when distilleries were not afraid to market a young whisky: for example, here the Campbeltown’er is only 5 years old. ---...

Score 75/100

Glen Scotia 20 Year Old 1991 Wilson & Morgan

I will continue with another Wilson & Morgan bottling, but moving to Campbeltown. This Glen Scotia is 20 Year Old and matured since 1991 on a sherry butt. The nose is rather closed and needs some hand warmth. Besides some dark fruit I get primarily mocha and coffee. Some dry leaves, too. Almonds. Make that marzipan. There is something in...

Score 81/100

Glen Scotia 13 Year Old 2005 Single Cask Selection #17/413-2

I am happy to put two sister cask from Glen Scotia head-to-head: cask #17/413-2 against cask #17/413-8, both put to sleep in 2005 and both bottled in 2019. The first is a Tawny Port Hogshead that yielded 299 bottles, the second an oloroso sherry cask that yielded 328 bottles. Both were bottled at cask strength. Let’s start with the port cask. Oh,...

Score 87/100

SMWS 93.38 - Stirs the atavistic soul

Pull up to the bumper baby! Nose: An awful lot going on here - this is not the most accessible bouquet I've come across but that's not to say I don't relish a challenge! There's an underlying sweetness with some burnt rubber. I have no idea where this whisky is from. Spice, sweetness, something medicinal but not an Islay medicine, more cough...

Score 91/100