Old Pulteney 8 Year Old Bottled 1970's Gordon & Macphail

Old Pulteney Noss Head Lighthouse

I think Old Pulteney puts out some very unique tasting malts. I really like the 21 year old (though not as much as some whisky gurus, mind you), the 17 is solid as is the 12. Haven't had the chance to taste the older bottlings but I did have sip or two from their last Travel Retail offering, the WK series, which were quite decent in my opinion....

Score 90/100

Old Pulteney Duncansby Head Lighthouse

This is the second installment of the latest Old Pulteney Travel Retail series to hit the Duty Free shelves after the WK editions. I've just finished writing a review for the Noss Head Lighthouse so I used up all my Old Pulteney preamble there. Basically all I want to say is the three expressions are named after Lighthouses. I guess their...

Score 87/100

Old Pulteney 12 Year Old

Old Pulteney 12 year old was quite mediocre but still an okay whisky. Didn't offer much complexity or character for it's price range you won't go wrong either. Old Pulteney 12 yrs was kinda funny mix of two themes not so close to each other. It was a mix of salty sea air kind of minerals and floral/forest berries. So even though the taste and...

Score 79/100

Old Pulteney 21 Year Old

Opened my bottle of OP21. Needless to say, I was not disappointed. In fact, I've actually not always liked some of the bottles that Murray has lauded and heaped praise on, in the past, and so my hopes were not up terribly high. Well, Murray was right this time. The nailed it, lock stock and both smoking barrels. A cracking dram, to be sure. I...

Score 91/100