Miltonduff 12 Year Old

Miltonduff 10 Year Old 2008 McShelfie

Here is another unique whisky from the Belgian club McShelfie. Remember the Stairway to Orkney, in which they transferred some 50 liters to an oloroso sherry octave? They did they exact same with this Miltonduff. Originally matured on a bourbon cask, it was transferred to the sherry cask at 58.2% and left for 7 months. Then it was bottled at 56.6%...

Score 84/100

Miltonduff 21 Year Old 1992 The Whisky Cask

While there are hardly any official bottlings (the lion’s share goes into Ballantine’s, Old Smuggler and Teacher’s), Miltonduff is quite easily found with independent bottlers. This is one of those, albeit already a couple of years on the market. The sherry cask gave it a lovely copper hue. At first, the nose shows quite a bit of sulpher, but that...

Score 84/100

Miltonduff 15 Year Old 2004 Malts of Scotland

This is already the fifth cask of Miltonduff that Thomas and his team have bottled. This time it’s a sherry cask – very active judging by the color – that slept about 15 long years. Looks like we are in for a sherry bomb. Yup, from the minute I put my nose in the glass, I’m overwhelmed by ‘deep sherry’ as I like to call it. Immediately dark and...

Score 87/100

Miltonduff 1971 Duncan Taylor Lonach

Although the name Miltonduff is not heard often as a single malt, it is a high-capacity distillery and considered the most important component of the Ballantine’s blend. It’s one of the key plants in the Chivas / Pernod Ricard group. Gordon & MacPhail has semi-official bottlings of Miltonduff such as a regular 10 years old. As you know, the...

Score 92/100