Linkwood 1989 23 Year Old Cask #5048 Adelphi

Linkwood 12 Year Old 2009 Whisky Club of Luxembourg Berry Bros & Rudd

Berry Brothers & Rudd is of course very well known, so no intro needed. For years, the royal supplier with headquarters in London, they of course also bottle whisky themselves. This young Linkwood was bottled especially for the Whisky Club from Luxembourg. The hogshead yielded 324 cask strength bottles. I got a sample pressed into the hands by...

Score 86/100

Linkwood 15 Year Old

Gordon & Macphail has been a licensed bottler for Linkwood for decades and continues to be. This 15 Year Old is always available. I am trying a recent bottling from 2017, so this is a distillate from the new millennium. Very sweet and extremely fruity nose on apricots, juicy peaches and even crushed banana, but slowly it turns candied. Turkish...

Score 85/100

Linkwood 12 Year Old 1998/2010 James MacArthur for Milano Whisky Festival 2010

Linkwood is an important part of Johnnie Walker, Haig, Bells, White Horse and Dimple, but there are also a couple of official bottlings and quite a few independents, like this one. This Linkwood was bottled at the age of 12 for the Milano Whisky Festival in March 2010 by James MacArthur. It’s a single cask, but probably only part, since only 120...

Score 80/100

Linkwood 5 Year Old 1973 John McEwan & Co Ltd Italian Import

Oooh, this is a golden oldie, right? Distilled in 1973 (the year of birth of Dearly Beloved, the sweetest woman of Gentbrugge and surroundings) and bottled after five years, so somewhere in 1978 or 1979. Consequently, a bottle of 750ml – Italian import, mind you – with a screw cap. I'm curious what this ultra-pale Linkwood tastes like, knowing...

Score 83/100