Linkwood 15 Year Old 1996 Batch 0002 Dimensions Duncan Taylor

Linkwood 9 Year Old 2008 Signatory for Flander's Finest Cask Selection

Our Flemish whisky collectif selected a very young Linkwood indeed. It was distilled on 14th May 2008 and bottled on 15th May 2017. So the cask had just celebrated its 8th birthday. It matured on a bourbon barrel and was cut to 46% as Signatory usually does with its whiskies bottled in the Un-Chill Filtered Collection. The nose is very sweet,...

Score 81/100

Linkwood 28 Year Old 1989 Cadenhead

This Linkwood was bottled three years ago for ‘The best Cadenhead bars & Restaurant in Singapore’. Indeed, the back label mentions The Swan Song, The Writing Club, Qaich Bar en New Ubin Seafood. I wonder if my friend Keith Chong sometimes goes to any of these places… Anyway, thanks to my buddy Manny I was able to score a sample. Will you look...

Score 88/100

Linkwood 13 Year Old 2001 A.D. Rattray

Distilled at the Linkwood Distillery on 7 April 2001, this Linkwood was bottled on 24 Oktober 2014, making it 13 years old. A.D. Rattray bottled it at cask strength. The bourbon hogshead yielded 318 bottles. I discovered this Linkwood at Global Spirits Expo in Antwerp on 18th June 2017. It is one of the palest Linkwood I have ever tried....

Score 85/100

Linkwood 18 Year Old 1997 Jack Wiebers

Jack Wiebers often bottles single casks with strange names and artsy labels. This one falls in both categories, I’d say. But of course the contents of the bottle is what matters and in this case it’s an 18 Year Old Linkwood from 1997 at cask strength. Wow! When I put my nose in the glass for the first time, I’m actually reminded of grain whisky....

Score 87/100