Miltonduff 1963 21 Year Old Connoisseurs Choice Gordon & Macphail

Miltonduff 35 Year Old 1966 Douglas Laing Old Malt Cask

This Miltonduff has spent more than a decade in the bottle and matured for 35 years before that. It was distilled before I was born and bottled under the famous banner Old Malt Cask. Since the split of the Douglas Laing company, OMC is no longer part of Fred Laing’s company, but part of his brother Stewart’s new company Hunter Laing & Co. This...

Score 88/100

Miltonduff 23 Year Old 1989 C&S Dram Collection

C&S Dram is a German independent bottler run by Andrea Cammineci (the name reveals his Italian roots), who started out as a wine merchant in 2005. Let us try his Miltonduff 1989 from a sherry hogshead that yielded 211 bottles. It was released in 2013. The nose is farily creamy and quite fruity, but it also has an edge of burnt caramel, which...

Score 81/100

Miltonduff 1969

NOSE: brown sugar, strawberry jam, mint, orange marmalade, herbal, tannic over-brewed black tea, chocolate-covered prunes. TASTE: syrup consistency, but then with time it becomes looser. It explodes in your mouth with big spices, dried fruit and cranberries towards the finish with a lot of tannins that accompany the entire experience. FINISH:...

Score 82/100

Miltonduff 39 Year Old 1978 Cadenhead’s

Miltonduff does not appear on my radar all that often. This is only my 26th, but also the oldest I have ever tried. Distilled when yours truly was only an 8 year old boy and bottled two years ago by one of Scotland’s oldest bottlers. Around 390 EUR or about 10 EUR for each year of maturation (note to self: what’s kind of remark is that?). I am...

Score 88/100