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Balblair 5 years old

  • Distillery: Balblair (Highland)
  • Age: 5 years, Distillation: No Information
  • Strength: 40%
  • Sweetness: 6/10, Peatiness: 4/10, Availability: 1/10
  • Colour: Very pale straw
  • Nose: Peaty, aromatic, quite light and spirity
  • Flavour: Slightly sweet, faintly peaty, spirity and quite light
  • Finish: Shortish and light
  • Notes: Sold on German market

Balblair 10 years old

  • Distillery: Balblair (Highland)
  • Age: 10 years, Distillation: No Information
  • Strength: 40%
  • Sweetness: 8/10, Peatiness: 3/10, Availability: 4/10
  • Colour: Mid-amber with gold highlights
  • Nose: Quite full-bodied, dark and sweet and lightly nutty with a toffee/aniseed character
  • Flavour: Sweet, nutty, quite round and smooth with quite good body and lightly peated
  • Finish: Clean and quite sweet
  • Notes: Gordon & MacPhail bottling
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Balmenach 12 years old

  • Distillery: Balmenach (Speyside)
  • Age: 12 years, Distillation: No Information
  • Strength: 43%
  • Sweetness: 7/10, Peatiness: 5/10, Availability: 6/10
  • Colour: Quite deep amber with bronze highlights
  • Nose: Quite full-bodied, heather floral characters, medium-sweet, rich and sherried with a light honeyed nuttiness
  • Flavour: Full-bodied, sherried and nutty with a touch of oily vanilla
  • Finish: Long, nutty and medium-sweet with a touch of tannin
  • Notes: United Distillers bottling

Balmenach 1981

  • Distillery: Balmenach (Speyside)
  • Age: No Information, Distillation: 1981
  • Strength: 62.6%
  • Sweetness: 6/10, Peatiness: 5/10, Availability: 4/10
  • Colour: Very pale, watery straw with pale lemon highlights
  • Nose: Very mashy, youthful character, lightly spirity with a sweetness at the back
  • Flavour: Medium-sweet, rich and unctuous with gentle tannins, a hint of austerity at the front of the palate and lightly peated
  • Finish: Quite short, but smooth with a light chewiness
  • Notes: Wm. Cadenhead bottling

Balmenach 1972

  • Distillery: Balmenach (Speyside)
  • Age: No Information, Distillation: 1972
  • Strength: 40%
  • Sweetness: 6/10, Peatiness: 7/10, Availability: 4/10
  • Colour: Mid-amber with light bronze highlights
  • Nose: Medium sweet, quite full-bodied, dark, rich, brazil nutty and smoky, oaky with a good unctuous richness
  • Flavour: Medium-dry, nutty, of good body with a soft richness and smoky oak
  • Finish: Long and slightly chewy with a slight perfumed smokiness
  • Notes: Gordon & MacPhail bottling

Balmenach 1970

  • Distillery: Balmenach (Speyside)
  • Age: No Information, Distillation: 1970
  • Strength: 40%
  • Sweetness: 5/10, Peatiness: 6/10, Availability: 4/10
  • Colour: Straw/golden
  • Nose: Light, but faintly sweet
  • Flavour: Much bigger than the nose suggests, a little woody and with a pleasant sweet edge
  • Finish: Full and distinguished
  • Notes: Gordon & MacPhail bottling
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The Balvenie Founder's Reserve

  • Distillery: The Balvenie (Speyside)
  • Age: 10 years, Distillation: No Information
  • Strength: 40%
  • Sweetness: 8/10, Peatiness: 3/10, Availability: 8/10
  • Colour: Straw with good golden highlights
  • Nose: Full and rich with a green edge, medium-sweet with an appley aroma
  • Flavour: Medium-dry, smooth, oaky and malty
  • Finish: Of reasonable length, quite rich
  • Notes: William Grant bottling

The Balvenie Doublewood

  • Distillery: The Balvenie (Speyside)
  • Age: 12 years, Distillation: No Information
  • Strength: 40%
  • Sweetness: 7/10, Peatiness: 3/10, Availability: 7/10
  • Colour: Quite full amber with old gold highlights and a hint of lemon
  • Nose: Quite full mushy/spirity and ripe with a slightly walnut nutty character and a fresh, almost Riesling-like diesel touch
  • Flavour: Medium-sweet, slightly spicy, smooth and round with a dark nuttiness, a chocolatey/malty character and delicately peated
  • Finish: Fresh, warm, rich, quite tangy, long and with the walnut character of the nose
  • Notes: Partly aged in a Bourbon cask, its maturation is finished off in a Sherry cask, hence its name Balvenie DoubleWood. William Grant bottling

The Balvenie Single Barrel

  • Distillery: The Balvenie (Speyside)
  • Age: 15 years, Distillation: 1978
  • Strength: 50.4%
  • Sweetness: 7/10, Peatiness: 3/10, Availability: 4/10
  • Colour: Bright, pale mid-amber with yellow-gold highlights
  • Nose: Quite full-bodied, ripe, rich and medium-sweet with an unctuous oily honeyed vanilla- oak character, delicately peated with hints of green apples
  • Flavour: Medium-sweet, quite full-bodied, smooth and round with a backbone of oaky tannin, an oily-vanilla texture and a slight green edge to the peatiness
  • Finish: Very long and complex with hints of bitter chocolate, hazelnuts, toffee, honey and a nice green coffee tang
  • Notes: William Grant bottling. Bottle no.134 from cask no 199. This cask was filled on 17.01.1978 and bottled on 13 10.1993. Sold as The Balvenie Single Barrel

The Balvenie 21 years old

  • Distillery: The Balvenie (Speyside)
  • Age: 21 years, Distillation: 1973
  • Strength: 52.8%
  • Sweetness: 7/10, Peatiness: 2/10, Availability: 4/10
  • Colour: Mid-amber with gold highlights
  • Nose: Very soft, smooth and medium-sweet, malty and delicate with a toffee apple aroma
  • Flavour: Soft, sweet, very delicately peated with quite a fresh green apple character
  • Finish: Long, smooth and sweet with a coffee tang
  • Notes: Wm. Cadenhead bottling, distilled February,1973
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Banff 1974

  • Distillery: Banff (Highland)
  • Age: No Information, Distillation: 1974
  • Strength: 40%
  • Sweetness: 10/10, Peatiness: 6/10, Availability: 4/10
  • Colour: Medium-peaty gold
  • Nose: Quite peaty, slightly oily with a slight hint of ozone
  • Flavour: Round, mellow and slightly spicy
  • Finish: Good, long, slightly sugar-sweet, perhaps a little overpoweringly so
  • Notes: Gordon & MacPhail bottling

Banff 1976

  • Distillery: Banff (Highland)
  • Age: 17 years, Distillation: 1976
  • Strength: 60.5%
  • Sweetness: 6/10, Peatiness: 6/10, Availability: 4/10
  • Colour: Mid-amber with yellow/gold highlights
  • Nose: Fresh and clean with a soft green fruitiness, hints of perfume and a cedar note
  • Flavour: Fresh, smooth, medium-dry and quite round with good body and gentle tannins
  • Finish: Of reasonable length, it has a light earthy smokiness with a green edge
  • Notes: Wm. Cadenhead bottling
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Ben Nevis 21 years old

  • Distillery: Ben Nevis (Highland)
  • Age: 21 years, Distillation: No Information
  • Strength: 55.6%
  • Sweetness: 5/10, Peatiness: 6/10, Availability: 2/10
  • Colour: Quite deep amber with bronze highlights
  • Nose: Full-bodied, rich, oaky and medium-sweet with a firm peatiness
  • Flavour: Full-bodied, dark and nutty with a rich peatiness, medium-sweet with quite gentle oaky tannins
  • Finish: Long, powerful and delicately smoky with a tangy touch of spice and just an edge of sweetness on the tail
  • Notes: Ben Nevis bottling

Ben Nevis 22 years old

  • Distillery: Ben Nevis (Highland)
  • Age: 22 years, Distillation: No Information
  • Strength: 46%
  • Sweetness: 3/10, Peatiness: 6/10, Availability: 4/10
  • Colour: Deep, peaty amber with good gold highlights
  • Nose: Spirity, malty, dryish, lightly peated and slightly leafy
  • Flavour: Dry, lightly peaty, spirity and slightly spicy
  • Finish: Smooth, clean and enjoyably long
  • Notes: Wm. Cadenhead bottling

Ben Nevis 1967

  • Distillery: Ben Nevis (Highland)
  • Age: 26 years, Distillation: No Information
  • Strength: 58%
  • Sweetness: 4/10, Peatiness: 5/10, Availability: 3/10
  • Colour: Mid-amber with old gold highlights
  • Nose: Medium-sweet, quite rich and fresh with a touch of oily oaky vanilla, a green character and medium bodied
  • Flavour: Medium-dry, quite full and rich with a slight oily smoothness
  • Finish: Long and gently smoky with good rich sweetness and a tail of bitter toffee
  • Notes: Ben Nevis bottling

Ben Nevis 1972

  • Distillery: Ben Nevis (Highland)
  • Age: No Information, Distillation: No Information
  • Strength: 60.5%
  • Sweetness: 5/10, Peatiness: 6/10, Availability: 2/10
  • Colour: Pale amber with gold highlights
  • Nose: Quite full, earthy, medium-sweet, quite peaty for the region with hints of hazelnuts
  • Flavour: Medium-sweet, smoky and smooth with a little tannin and a green freshness
  • Finish: Long and gently smoky with a touch of spice
  • Notes: Ben Nevis bottling from cask no 619

Ben Nevis 1977

  • Distillery: Ben Nevis (Highland)
  • Age: 15 years, Distillation: No Information
  • Strength: 60.9%
  • Sweetness: 6/10, Peatiness: 5/10, Availability: 2/10
  • Colour: Straw with yellow/pale gold highlights
  • Nose: Full-bodied with a dark peatiness and a rich, medium-dry tang of orange peel
  • Flavour: Soft, medium-sweet, rich and velvety smooth with a gentle peatiness
  • Finish: Long, fresh, clean and rich with a lightly toffeeyed tail
  • Notes: Wm. Cadenhead bottling
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Benriach 10 years old

  • Distillery: Benriach (Speyside)
  • Age: 10 years, Distillation: No Information
  • Strength: 43%
  • Sweetness: 6/10, Peatiness: 3/10, Availability: 7/10
  • Colour: Quite pale straw with lemon highlights
  • Nose: Fresh, green appley bubble-gum character, lightly malty and lightly peated, medium-sweet
  • Flavour: Medium-dry, soft, quite full-bodied with a chocolatey richness and touches of spice and coffee
  • Finish: Rich with a tang of coffee, quite long and lingering
  • Notes: Seagram bottling

Benriach 1969

  • Distillery: Benriach (Speyside)
  • Age: No Information, Distillation: 1969
  • Strength: 40%
  • Sweetness: 6/10, Peatiness: 3/10, Availability: 4/10
  • Colour: Pale straw with gold highlights
  • Nose: Sweet, distinctive fruitiness, fresh and appley
  • Flavour: Sweet, appley, distinctive, reminiscent of Calvados
  • Finish: Spicy and good with the apple Flavour lingering
  • Notes: Gordon & MacPhail bottling
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Benrinnes 15 years old

  • Distillery: Benrinnes (Speyside)
  • Age: 15 years, Distillation: No Information
  • Strength: 43%
  • Sweetness: 8/10, Peatiness: 4/10, Availability: 4/10
  • Colour: Amber with old gold highlights
  • Nose: Medium-bodied, biscuity-yeasty, fresh, vanilla and medium- sweet with a slight floral note
  • Flavour: Medium-sweet, round, smooth, biscuity and honeyed
  • Finish: Nice, sweet, round, biscuity and honeyed
  • Notes: United Distillers bottling

Benrinnes 1977

  • Distillery: Benrinnes (Speyside)
  • Age: No Information, Distillation: 1977
  • Strength: 43%
  • Sweetness: 7/10, Peatiness: 6/10, Availability: 1/10
  • Colour: Pale straw with pale yellow highlights
  • Nose: Quite full-bodied and mashy with a soft, slightly unctuous smoky character
  • Flavour: Good body, medium-dry and smoky with a bubblegummy character
  • Finish: Very clean, quite fresh and spicy
  • Notes: From "The Ultimate Selection" bottled for Van Wees of Holland - cask no. 5559, distilled 11.11.1977

Benrinnes 20 years old

  • Distillery: Benrinnes (Speyside)
  • Age: 20 years, Distillation: 1974
  • Strength: 43%
  • Sweetness: 6/10, Peatiness: 4/10, Availability: 1/10
  • Colour: Quite full amber with old gold highlights
  • Nose: Medium-bodied, rich and dark nuttiness with a slight charcoal character
  • Flavour: Big, chunky, dark and nutty with quite full tannins, round, medium-sweet and quite smooth
  • Finish: Chewy with tangs of spice and vanilla, quite long
  • Notes: From "The Ultimate Selection" bottled for Van Wees of Holland - cask no. 2577, distilled 18.03.1974

Benrinnes 1969

  • Distillery: Benrinnes (Speyside)
  • Age: No Information, Distillation: 1968
  • Strength: 40%
  • Sweetness: 6/10, Peatiness: 6/10, Availability: 4/10
  • Colour: Straw/gold with good bright highlights
  • Nose: Sweet, nutty and slightly fatty in an unctuous way
  • Flavour: Medium-sweet, smoky, spicy and oaky
  • Finish: Good, smoky and dry, smooth and creamy
  • Notes: Gordon & MacPhail bottling
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Benromach 1968

  • Distillery: Benromach (Highland)
  • Age: No Information, Distillation: 1968
  • Strength: 40%
  • Sweetness: 8/10, Peatiness: 4/10, Availability: 3/10
  • Colour: Deepish amber with slightly grey-green tints
  • Nose: Full, ripe, sweet and definitely fruity
  • Flavour: Sweet, mellow, soft & a little spirity
  • Finish: Spicy and long with a little touch of a floral note
  • Notes: Gordon & MacPhail bottling

Benromach 1969

  • Distillery: Benromach (Highland)
  • Age: No Information, Distillation: 1969
  • Strength: 40%
  • Sweetness: 7/10, Peatiness: 4/10, Availability: 3/10
  • Colour: Mid-amber with yellow/gold highlights
  • Nose: Fresh and medium-dry with an oily-oaky aroma, soft and smooth with a touch of green apples
  • Flavour: Medium-dry, quite rich and soft, sweetness develops in the palate, gently peated
  • Finish: Quite long and lightly smoky with a touch of spice in the tail
  • Notes: Gordon & MacPhail bottling
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Bladnoch 10 years old (UD)

  • Distillery: Bladnoch (Lowland)
  • Age: 10 years, Distillation: No Information
  • Strength: 43%
  • Sweetness: 4/10, Peatiness: 4/10, Availability: 6/10
  • Colour: Straw/amber with yellow highlights and green tinge
  • Nose: Fresh, quite full, fruity and floral, medium- dry with an attractive grape spirit-like aroma
  • Flavour: Fresh with good weight, a sweet edge and a touch of spice
  • Finish: Fresh with nice sweetness and quite light
  • Notes: United Distillers bottling

Bladnoch 10 years old (Blackadder)

  • Distillery: Bladnoch (Lowland)
  • Age: 10 years, Distillation: 1984
  • Strength: 43%
  • Sweetness: 2/10, Peatiness: 5/10, Availability: 2/10
  • Colour: Pale straw with lemon highlights
  • Nose: Medium-bodied, almost dry with a slight rubber aroma and herby/rosemary/citrus character and a touch of perfume
  • Flavour: Off-dry, smooth, quite round with a delicate smokiness and a herby and cereal touch
  • Finish: Fresh, clean and of reasonable length
  • Notes: Blackadder International bottling
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Blair Athol 12 years old

  • Distillery: Blair Athol (Highland)
  • Age: 12 years, Distillation: No Information
  • Strength: 43%
  • Sweetness: 7/10, Peatiness: 6/10, Availability: 6/10
  • Colour: Pale, mid-amber with gold highlights
  • Nose: Quite full with touches of nuttiness and greenness, medium-sweet with a fresh smokiness
  • Flavour: Medium-sweet and quite full-bodied, spicy and round with a definite smoky tang
  • Finish: Fresh, quite long and smoky with a sweetness on the tail
  • Notes: United Distillers bottling

Blair Athol 8 years old

  • Distillery: Blair Athol (Highland)
  • Age: 8 years, Distillation: No Information
  • Strength: 40%
  • Sweetness: 5/10, Peatiness: 5/10, Availability: 1/10
  • Colour: Straw/golden
  • Nose: Fresh, clean and lightly peated
  • Flavour: Sweet, almost almondy
  • Finish: Quite good and distinctive
  • Notes: Arthur Bell Distillers bottling

Blair Athol 23 years old

  • Distillery: Blair Athol (Highland)
  • Age: 23 years, Distillation: 1966
  • Strength: 57.1%
  • Sweetness: 6/10, Peatiness: 5/10, Availability: 2/10
  • Colour: Mid-amber with yellow/gold highlights
  • Nose: Medium-sweet, quite good body and round with nice vanilla-oak and a citrus oil tang
  • Flavour: Soft, smooth, medium-sweet with a dry oakiness, quite gentle tannins and good body
  • Finish: Long with a distinctive perfumed sweetness and a gentle smokiness
  • Notes: Wm. Cadenhead bottling distilled October,1966
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Bowmore Legend

  • Distillery: Bowmore (Islay)
  • Age: No Information, Distillation: No Information
  • Strength: 40%
  • Sweetness: 1/10, Peatiness: 9/10, Availability: 9/10
  • Colour: Light amber with gold highlights and a touch of green
  • Nose: Full, pungent, a touch perfumed & a phenol character with a little greenness
  • Flavour: Dry with an edge of richness, perfumed and quite pungent
  • Finish: Long, gently smoky and perfumed
  • Notes: Morrison Bowmore bottling. Sold as Bowmore Legend

Bowmore 10 years old

  • Distillery: Bowmore (Islay)
  • Age: 10 years, Distillation: No Information
  • Strength: 40%
  • Sweetness: 0/10, Peatiness: 9/10, Availability: 10/10
  • Colour: Mid-amber with gold highlights
  • Nose: Full, dry, pungent with a touch of burnt heather and perfumed
  • Flavour: Dry, heather-perfumed, fresh and smoky, quite full-bodied with whiffs of ozone
  • Finish: Long, characterful and smoky
  • Notes: Morrison Bowmore bottling

Bowmore 12 years old

  • Distillery: Bowmore (Islay)
  • Age: 12 years, Distillation: No Information
  • Strength: 40%
  • Sweetness: 0/10, Peatiness: 9/10, Availability: 9/10
  • Colour: Full, amber, very bright
  • Nose: Lightish, peaty, burnt heather with a characteristic tang of ozone/iodine and even a whiff of chocolate!
  • Flavour: Smooth, refined flavour with a pronounced smoky peatiness
  • Finish: Good, long & dry
  • Notes: Morrison Bowmore bottling

Bowmore 17 years old

  • Distillery: Bowmore (Islay)
  • Age: 17 years, Distillation: No Information
  • Strength: 43%
  • Sweetness: 2/10, Peatiness: 8/10, Availability: 6/10
  • Colour: Quite full, deep amber with old gold highlights
  • Nose: Rich, medium bodied with a pungency, but delicacy and aromas of violets
  • Flavour: Round, quite full-bodied, smoky and rich with gentle tannins
  • Finish: Soft, gently smoky, quite elegant and slightly salty
  • Notes: Morrison Bowmore bottling

Bowmore 21 years old

  • Distillery: Bowmore (Islay)
  • Age: 21 years, Distillation: No Information
  • Strength: 43%
  • Sweetness: 2/10, Peatiness: 9/10, Availability: 5/10
  • Colour: Mid-amber with old gold highlights
  • Nose: Quite big-bodied, dark & smoky, rounded and quite dry with just a hint of ozone
  • Flavour: Big, round, burnt heather roots, quite pungent with a delicate floral note at the back
  • Finish: Long with a hint of sweetness/richness and finely smoky with a touch of bitter chocolate on the tail
  • Notes: Morrison Bowmore bottling

Bowmore 25 years old

  • Distillery: Bowmore (Islay)
  • Age: 25 years, Distillation: No Information
  • Strength: 43%
  • Sweetness: 3/10, Peatiness: 7/10, Availability: 3/10
  • Colour: Quite deep amber with pale bronze highlights
  • Nose: Quite full-bodied, rich with a slightly green hedgerow freshness, a floral smokiness and burnt vanilla notes
  • Flavour: Full-bodied, fresh and round, medium-dry but rich, a slightly perfumed dark peaty smokiness and a touch of oaky tannin
  • Finish: Long, gently chewy, almost floral, quite delicately smoky with a hint of seaweed and bitter chocolate - very complex
  • Notes: Morrison Bowmore bottling

Black Bowmore

  • Distillery: Bowmore (Islay)
  • Age: No Information, Distillation: 1964
  • Strength: 50%
  • Sweetness: 2/10, Peatiness: 7/10, Availability: 1/10
  • Colour: Very deep, dark mahogany/teak with deep bronze highlights
  • Nose: Big-bodied, full, dark, nutty and rich, quite delicately peated, dry with slight notes of burnt mahogany
  • Flavour: Big, powerful, full-bodied, quite tannic with dark nutty flavours, smooth, although chewy
  • Finish: Long, full-flavoured, quite chewy with a smoky/nutty character, a good perfumed peatiness and a rich salty tang on the tail
  • Notes: Morrison Bowmore bottling. Known as Black Bowmore, this is from a very rare old sherry cask bottling

Bowmore Mariner

  • Distillery: Bowmore (Islay)
  • Age: 15 years, Distillation: No Information
  • Strength: 43%
  • Sweetness: 2/10, Peatiness: 8/10, Availability: 5/10
  • Colour: Amber with gold/bronze highlights
  • Nose: Rich, gloriously chocolatey and with good body; a delicate note of burnt heather roots and a peatiness at the back
  • Flavour: Quite full-bodied, smoky, clean and round with a richness at the back
  • Finish: Long, fresh and smoky with an appealing green edge
  • Notes: Morrison Bowmore bottling
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Braes of Glenlivet 15 years old

  • Distillery: Braes of Glenlivet (Speyside)
  • Age: 15 years, Distillation: No Information
  • Strength: 43%
  • Sweetness: 7/10, Peatiness: 5/10, Availability: 2/10
  • Colour: Quite deep amber with bronze highlights
  • Nose: Quite full-bodied, round and gently peaty; rich and creamy with a slightly perfumed character
  • Flavour: Round, smooth, full-bodied, medium-sweet with a not unpleasant, slightly perfumed, green edge
  • Finish: Long, smooth, medium-dry and slightly nutty
  • Notes: Signatory bottling distilled on 6 June 1979

Braes of Glenlivet 8 years old

  • Distillery: Braes of Glenlivet (Speyside)
  • Age: 8 years, Distillation: 1987
  • Strength: 60%
  • Sweetness: 7/10, Peatiness: 4/10, Availability: 2/10
  • Colour: Pale straw with pale, watery lemon highlights
  • Nose: Medium-dry, of quite good body, a young mashy character with a slight touch of citrus, a hedgerow greenness and a soft maltiness
  • Flavour: Soft, medium-sweet, quite good body and round with a touch of peat at the back
  • Finish: Clean, of reasonable length, with good sweetness and firm oak
  • Notes: Wm. Cadenhead bottling, bottled July, 1995
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Brora 1972

  • Distillery: Brora (Highland)
  • Age: No Information, Distillation: 1972
  • Strength: 40%
  • Sweetness: 3/10, Peatiness: 9/10, Availability: 2/10
  • Colour: Mid-amber with gold highlights
  • Nose: Full and heavily peated with a sooty character
  • Flavour: Big, and smooth with smoky characters of burnt oak
  • Finish: Nutty, chewy and smoky with a hint of sweetness
  • Notes: Gordon & MacPhail bottling

Brora 22 years old

  • Distillery: Brora (Highland)
  • Age: 22 years, Distillation: No Information
  • Strength: 58.7%
  • Sweetness: 4/10, Peatiness: 8/10, Availability: 2/10
  • Colour: Amber with gold highlights
  • Nose: Big bodied, quite pungent, a dark, smoky - almost sooty, burnt tang with richness at the back
  • Flavour: Quite big with a soft peatiness, but a burnt character, medium- sweet, quite rich and with big tannins
  • Finish: Long, with an almost burnt character, spicy with chewy tannins
  • Notes: United Distillers bottling
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Bruichladdich 10 years old

  • Distillery: Bruichladdich (Islay)
  • Age: 10 years, Distillation: No Information
  • Strength: 40%
  • Sweetness: 2/10, Peatiness: 7/10, Availability: 7/10
  • Colour: Pale golden with slight green tinges
  • Nose: A delicate peatiness, fairly light and with no great pungency
  • Flavour: Full and flavoursome, smoky and dry without the heavier notes of other Islays
  • Finish: Of good length and with a well-defined finish
  • Notes: Invergordon Distillers bottling

Bruichladdich 15 years old

  • Distillery: Bruichladdich (Islay)
  • Age: 15 years, Distillation: No Information
  • Strength: 40%
  • Sweetness: 3/10, Peatiness: 6/10, Availability: 4/10
  • Colour: Straw with amber/gold highlights
  • Nose: Rich, delicately peated, but with an underlying sweetness
  • Flavour: Slightly sweet with hints of nuttiness and very little of Islay's heavier characteristics
  • Finish: Spicy, warm, long, with sweet oak, but finally dry
  • Notes: Invergordon Distillers bottling

Bruichladdich 21 years old

  • Distillery: Bruichladdich (Islay)
  • Age: 21 years, Distillation: No Information
  • Strength: 43%
  • Sweetness: 3/10, Peatiness: 6/10, Availability: 4/10
  • Colour: Light amber with yellow/gold highlights
  • Nose: Quite light, fresh and rich with a faint touch of ozone
  • Flavour: Medium-bodied, fresh, almost dry, but with an edge of richness - an intriguing mixture of sweetness & dryness
  • Finish: Tangy, fresh, rich & clean and gently smoky
  • Notes: Invergordon Distillers bottling
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Bunnahabhain 12 years old

  • Distillery: Bunnahabhain (Islay)
  • Age: 12 years, Distillation: No Information
  • Strength: 40%
  • Sweetness: 3/10, Peatiness: 6/10, Availability: 9/10
  • Colour: Straw with golden highlights
  • Nose: Distinctive, quite light and flowery
  • Flavour: Smoother, softer and less pungent than other Islays
  • Finish: Smooth, round, lovely and long
  • Notes: Highland Distilleries bottling

Bunnahabhain 25 years old

  • Distillery: Bunnahabhain (Islay)
  • Age: 25 years, Distillation: 1964
  • Strength: 46%
  • Sweetness: 5/10, Peatiness: 6/10, Availability: 0/10
  • Colour: Straw with yellow highlights
  • Nose: Medium-sweet, rich, ripe and fruity with a dark tarriness at the back and a floral note
  • Flavour: Medium-sweet and rich with oaky tannins, quite smooth and creamy
  • Finish: Rich, full-bodied and quite long with an earthy smokiness on tail
  • Notes: Master of Malt bottling
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Bushmills 10 years old

  • Distillery: Bushmills Malt (North Irish)
  • Age: 10 years, Distillation: No Information
  • Strength: 40%
  • Sweetness: 6/10, Peatiness: 0/10, Availability: 9/10
  • Colour: Deep amber with gold reflections
  • Nose: Fresh, clean, slightly oily, grassy, gooseberries, very lightly cerealy
  • Flavour: Delicately sweet, quite complex, fresh, round, mellow, slightly spicy
  • Finish: Long, fine and almost vinuous or grapey
  • Notes: Irish Distillers bottling

Bushmills 16 years old

  • Distillery: Bushmills Malt (North Irish)
  • Age: 16 years, Distillation: 1977
  • Strength: 58.6%
  • Sweetness: 4/10, Peatiness: 0/10, Availability: 2/10
  • Colour: Quite pale amber with lemon highlights
  • Nose: Very fresh unpeated cleanness, a gooseberry greenness and almost grassy Sauvignon Blanc-like, rich, quite full-bodied with a hint of sweet menthol
  • Flavour: Medium-dry, fresh, clean, green and quite full-bodied, rich and round with a ripe apple flavour
  • Finish: Long, zingy and spicy with tangy green apples
  • Notes: Wm. Cadenhead bottling, bottled on St. Patrick's Day,17.03.1994
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