Scapa 10 Year Old

Scapa Skiren

The Skiren from Scapa is their NAS offering that should make you forget about the 16 Year Old. The Skiren were an East Germanian tribe that originally lived in today’s Poland. Around 230 BC they moved south, towards the Black Sea. What the link with Scapa is, remains a mystery to me. Let us get down to tasting this baby. Wonderfully sweet with a...

Score 82/100

Scapa 23 Year Old 1979 Chieftain’s Choice

Time for a 23 Year Old Scapa on a sherry cask, that I have put head-to-head to a 22 Year Old, matured on an Amontillado sherry cask, bottled three years earlier. This one is bottled at cask strength, though, so quite different most likely. The nose is relatively soft and not very expressive. Grassy with vanilla, apple sauce and some oatmeal with...

Score 86/100

Scapa G.M 2000 Single Cask

The Scapa single malt is one of legend for a young whisky fan like myself, and i know, legend is already an overused word in the world of single malt whisky "PR&Marketing". However the word seems suitable for a distillery like Scapa, i haven't tried the excellence past but i have heard the stories and read the reviews. It is hard to...

Score 85/100

Scapa 16 Year Old

I think Scapa 16 is underrated. It is a nice craft-oriented dram that really hit the spot after I gave a lecture yesterday and needed a respite. It does have a strange tincture mixed in with biscuit, short bread, toffee, autumn leaves on the forest loam after a loam, moss, and nougat--probably due to peat in the water used to make it(?), but I...

Score 86/100