Imperial 1995 17 Year Old Cask #50075 Berry Bros & Rudd

Imperial Duncan Taylor Dimensions 1995-2012 bottle 219/282

Pretty light in colour. Hot, but light. Rosewater and flowers. Very floral. Chewy and meaty flavours on first taste. Some salty flavour, not quite jerky, then turns slightly sour and dirty. Like actual dirt flavours.

Score 78/100

Imperial 15 Year Old 1995 Signatory

It is always exciting to discover a new single malt. Today, I am trying my first ever Imperial. It is a lesser known distillery that was more closed than it was open. This bottle was released last year by The Nectar, a Belgian bottler. The nose is creamy, even waxy, with buttercups and vanilla in the lead, followed by pineapples on syrup. Some...

Score 79/100

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 19 Year Old 1995 Signatory

This whisky is literally a week shy of being 20 years, as it was distilled on 18th September 1995 and bottled on the 11th September 2015. Quite pale, this is taken from a cask in the Signatory warehouses. They seem to have an unlimited stock of Imperial, as they have bottled dozens of casks from 1995 with the numbers 50XXX. So this bottling is...

Score 83/100