Glen Scotia 1992 15 Year Old Murray Mcdavid

Glen Scotia Wilson & Morgan 1991 20 Year Old

I bet you forgot that there's another distillery in Campbeltown besides Springbank! That would be Glen Scotia, founded in the 1830s by the Galbraith family, who owned the distillery for the rest of the 1800s. It is now owned by Loch Lomond distillery. It is easy to ignore Glen Scotia, given the stature of neighbouring Springbank and the sporadic...

Score 84/100

Glen Scotia 21 Year Old 1992 Douglas Laing Old Particular

I have something of a love/hate relationship with Glen Scotia. That might explain why I have only tried twelve so far. Half of those did not meet my expectations and only one (a 1972 by Malts of Scotland that I tried over three years ago) was truly magnificent. Hmm, the nose on this one is quite lovely, though. Nice fruitiness in the shape of...

Score 89/100

Glen Scotia Malts of Scotland cask 1926

The first Glen Scotia I tried (not so long ago) was also a single cask from Malts of Scotland, but that was a sherry butt. This is a bourbon hogshead, cask 1926, bottled exclusively for Belgium. The second difference is, of course, the age. The sherry butt matured whisky was 18 years, this one matured more double that time: no less than 37 years!...

Score 89/100

Glen Scotia 10 Year Old 2008 Campbeltown Malts Festival 2018

I was truly impressed with Glen Scotia’s 2019 festival release, a 15 years old on rum casks. As luck would have it, I also got a sample of the previous year’s festival bottling. This time around, it’s a 10 years old Glen Scotia finished on rum casks. Let’s get to it. This is a rather sweet nose in which the peat plays only second fiddle. Lots of...

Score 82/100