Inchfad 2001 Heavily Peated American Oak Cask #665

Loch Lomond Original

From a 3cl sample bottle. Loch Lomond is one of the most unusual distilleries in Scotland, producing both grain and malt whisky, and has sets of standard pot stills and Lomond stills (although apparently they technically aren't, they are pot sills with rectifying columns). They produce a variety of single malts with varying peat levels and cut...

Score 63/100

Loch Lomond 12 Year Old

Nose: full, sweet, smoky, and grassy, with a burnt tobacco edge over black licorice. No fruit to speak of, but rather a sharp, slightly hot maltiness. Not elegant by any means but still rich and complex. Makes the nostrils tingle. Taste: thick, oily, and sweet off the hop, with bittersweet chocolate and smoke flooding the palate before sourness...

Score 84/100

Loch Lomond 21 Year Old 1996 Cadenhead

What do you know? I just tried a Loch Lomond that was distilled in 1974 and bottled after 23 years in 1997. Now I will try a Loch Lomond distilled in 1996 and bottled after 23 years in 2018. Speaking of continuity, yet I do believe it will be very different as a lot has changed in the intervening years at this distillery. That’s why I was happy to...

Score 85/100

Loch Lomond That Boutique-y Whisky Company Inchmurrin Batch 1

Part of my work is trying whiskies for import into the country. The cool thing about this is discovering whiskies that you've never heard of or tried before. Normally I don't focus much on a distilleries history or styles in my reviews. I know so many bloggers that do, that I hate to say it, but I find it honestly redundant. But every so often, I...

Score 87/100