Highland Park 30 yo 1981 / 2011 Whisky Agency 52.2%
I believe the 80s were more austere and often earthier than the previous 2 decades at Highland Park. The peat is here but it is a silver blade edged in … Continue reading
Talisker 15 yo 1979 / 1994 Cadenhead 63.2%
Monstrously muscular, whistle clean and up to the gills in salt and sweet farmy peat. A carousel of extremes here, crashing sea, hot mentholated medicines, seaweed juice, the spark of … Continue reading
Mortlach 21 yo 1990 / 2011 Signatory #6071 55.4%
Undoubtedly a big one, black tea, fig jam, licorice candy, cloves, black pepper, shoe polish. Full of meat and richness, almost chewy, and rather well executed too, even if the … Continue reading
Ardbeg 10 yo 46% Guaranteed Ten Years Old
Worth a revisit. This was an earlier batch from the mid 2000s. Yes this one seems to be coast forward, buttressed with a firm and muscular peat and lashings of … Continue reading
Bunnahabhain 1976 / 2001 Scott’s Selection 46.3%
Sometimes I find something in Bunnahabhain, particularly the 80s and 90s stuff, that reminds me of stale cheese. But not here, though Bunnahabhain is no doubt a weighty, oily whisky. … Continue reading
Balblair 31 yo 1989 / 2021 Nectar 48.2%
Not exactly a distillery commonly available to independents, so this really caught my eye. But this character – This is what happens when juicy whisky goes into quiet wood and … Continue reading
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