Miltonduff 1974 The Birds Moon Import

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

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 30 Year Old 1982 Duncan Taylor

The Duncan Taylor Single is a series of single malts of at least 30 years or from distilleries that are no longer operational – or both. There are only 53 bottles of this 30 Year Old Miltonduff! I discovered it at a local festival. The nose is very aromatic and fruity. Very fruity, in fact. Peach, young apples, pineapple and some unripe banana....

Score 87/100

Miltonduff 9 Year Old 2008 Duncan Taylor The Octave

Duncan Taylor has a series called ‘The Octave’, in which whisky matured in a smaller cask. After all, on octave is only 1/8th of a regular barrel. So maturation is faster as there is more contact with the wood. That probably explains why this Miltonduff was bottled after only 9 years (along with some sister casks). The nose is very herbal and...

Score 83/100