Linkwood 45 Year Old Sestante

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 19 Year Old 1993 Berry Bros & Rudd

For official Linkwood releases one needs to turn to the Flora & Fauna or Rare Malts Selection series. Or the Manager’s Choice that appeared in 2009. If you want to try another Linkwood, you need to turn to the independent bottlers. This release by Berry Bros & Rudd from London is a single cask at drinking strength. This is the twentieth...

Score 81/100

Linkwood 33 Year Old 1998 The Whisky Jury

'In remembrance of Mr Peter Cowell' is written in small print on the label. The Scotsman Cowell recently died and had this cask of Linkwood in his possession. The children sold the cask and that's how it ended up with Joeri from The Whisky Jury. They couldn't have found of a better bottler, I think. Joeri even gave them a few bottles to pay...

Score 89/100

Linkwood 32 Year Old 1973 Signatory Vintage

The last Linkwood from the 70s that I will try this week is a Signatory Vintage from the Cask Strength Collection, in those sublime decanters that my granny loves to use for all sorts of oils and vinegars, whenever I empty one. This is a hogshead that was bottled in 2006. At cask strength, obviously. The nose starts off closed, but some handwarmth...

Score 87/100