Loch Lomond

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

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 18 Year Old

In the new – so-called Island Series – range from Loch Lomond you will also find this 18 Year Old. And as I had read quite a few good things of Loch Lomond (some single cask releases were very good, it seems), I thought it worth it to give this one a go, even though I did not like the 18 Year Old from 2010 – at all. The nose is rather ordinary on...

Score 79/100

Inchmurrin 12 Year Old

Loch Lomond is actually a big whisky factory specialized in the making of bulk whisky, mostly for export. Because they use different types of stills – pot still, coffey still and a hybrid of the two called Lomond still – they can produce different kinds of malts. Inchmurrin is one of them. I tried the old 12 Year Old. The nose is rather flat on...

Score 74/100