Auction only Recommended, with caveats For the details… Macallan. The ultimate luxury whisky, and for a while, beloved of whisky connoisseurs. An object lesson of being a victim of your own success? Macallan started its life as a farm distillery, and was licensed to one Alexander Reid in 1824, shortly after the passage of the …
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Balmenach 2004 – Gordon & Macphail (Connoisseur’s Choice)
Highly limited Worth trying, if you come across it. For the details… Balmenach is unusual amongst modern malt distilleries in that it has had no official bottling in years, and is quite scarce even among independents. The whisky is well-known among aficionados as being a Speysider of the “older” style, producing a heavier spirit than …
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Tamnavulin 1993 21 years old (Hunter Laing – Old Malt Cask)
One-off, so probably no longer out there For completionists and connoisseurs For the details… Several years back, I was on a mission to try at least one whisky from every active distillery in Scotland. I never quite made it, even then (Abhainn Dearg and Daftmill eluded me), and now, with Scotland’s biggest whisky boom since …
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Auchroisk 13 year old (Alistair Walker Whisky Co – Infrequent Flyers)
Very limited Worth consideration for the connoisseur For the details… Auchroisk was built in 1972 by IDV (one of the predecessors of Diageo), the parent firm of Justerini & Brooks. Never intended for solo glory, the distillery was built in a decidedly industrial style with a name unpronounceable to any other than native Gaelic speakers …
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Mortlach – The Wee Witchie – 12 year old
Fairly wide availability Decent, but not great For the details... The Speyside town of Dufftown was once known as Mortlach. The town’s first legal distillery, founded in 1823, took that earlier name as its namesake. Over the years, as distilling boomed on Speyside, numerous other distilleries joined Mortlach in the town, leading to the saying …
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