Glen Scotia 1992 18 Year Old Sherry Cask #7017 Douglas Laing Old Malt Cask

Glen Scotia Double Cask

Glen Scotia is a Campbeltown distillery that has always been overshadowed by Springbank - to the degree that this is the first time (as far as I can remember) I have ever tried something from them. Founded in 1832 by the Galbraith family, they have remained very small with only a single pair of stills. It is currently owned by the Loch Lomond...

Score 85/100

Glen Scotia 13 Year Old 2005 single Cask Selection #17/413-8

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 finish with the oloroso cask...

Score 86/100

Glen Scotia 14 Year Old

An odd squat dark green bottle with a dodgy label, this was bottled during this distillery’s closed period which thankfully now has ended. Apparently the contents are older than the specified 14 years. A golden dram with a heady aroma rich in malted barley, some earthy peat, honey and herby elements. The taste is unusually malty and comes with a...

Score 93/100

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