Scapa 1988 10 Year Old Cask Strength Cadenhead's

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 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 16 Year Old

The Scapa, is a single malt which has eluded me for a long time being a youthfull whisky amateur, although the location can wake the attention out of anyone who has a keen interest in military and especially naval history. The location in question is the Scapa flow, which is renowned for being the England's most important naval base during the...

Score 84/100

Scapa 14 Year Old

When we think about Orkney, it is Highland Park that immediately comes to mind. But of course, Orkney has a second distillery. Unfortunately Scapa is not open to the public and they do not bottle a lot of whisky. Maybe that explains why I have only tasted one thus far. Time to do something about it. Let me start with an older bottling, the 14 Year...

Score 83/100