Imperial 1990 17 Year Old Duncan Taylor Rare Auld

Imperial 1995/2014 19 Year Old / The Ultimate

Imperial distillery was established in 1897. Its construction coincided with Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee and the year that the British Prime Minister, Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, hosted the first Imperial Conference - hence the name 'Imperial'. The distillery was closed again within two years due to the Pattinson crisis and remained so for almost...

Score 86/100

Imperial 1995 Signatory for K&L, cask 50135

Nose: Rich honey, and very cereal and grainy. All great stuff. Some vanilla and cake frosting. Sweet lemon custard with a slight edge to it. A few drops of anise. Essence of summer flowers with a side of wild strawberries. (with water) Lots more sugary sweetness and buttery sweet cake frosting. Vanilla. Just a few echoes of the flowers and wax....

Score 87/100

Imperial 1998/2015 G&M for Whisky Mercenary

Imperial, the only lost-distillery still suited for a poor man’s pockets (under the €100) ? Not anymore, with this release of the whisky mercenary, I’m paying for the first time more than a hundred for a bottle of Imperial goodness. These are truly sad times, gents and ladies. But who knows, a 17yo whisky with the stamp of approval from Belgium’s...

Score 86/100

Imperial 12 Year Old 1991 Gordon & Macphail

The most famous and probably oldest independent bottler, from Elgin, Gordon & Macphail, have released quite a few Imperial. This one was bottled almost ten years ago and bottled under their RESERVE label. Have you seen the ABV? Wow. The nose of this Imperial is quite different from the other two I have just tried. A lot less fruity. I get a...

Score 79/100