Scapa 16 Year Old 1993 Old Malt Cask Douglas Laing

Scapa 16 Year Old

After sampling and responding with my impressions, the bar maid got a hang of what I liked and did not like. I asked about this and she told me that I would not like it. I came back on another evening and ordered it anyway from a different bartender. My notes were that it was just too plain for my tastes and I won't order it again. I should have...

Score 75/100

Scapa 16 Year Old

Scapa distillery is located at the head of Scapa bay, south-west of Kirkwall on the main island of the Orkney isles, and was established as a private company in 1885. Production was stopped between 1934 and 1936 after then owners Scapa Distillery Co. Ltd. had gone into liquidation, and the distillery was mothballed in 1994, although from 1997 on a...

Score 84/100

Scapa 14 Year Old

Nose is of fine, tight grained oak and floral almost rosey bouquet. Very clear, light golden in colour. Flavours start salty and oceanic with a short finish.

Score 70/100

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