Aberlour 1965 30 Year Old

Aberlour 16 Year Old Double Cask

The Nose: Mmmmm…all sweet and hardly any peat. Bourbon-y brown sugar and Maraschino cherries. There’s a chewy caramel roll/sticky bun quality as well. Lots of sherry tones come out as well, ripe raisin as well as smooth oak. Lush, fairly voluptuous, and comforting. The Palate: After that rich, inviting nose, the entry was a little empty, which was...

Score 80/100

Aberlour A'bunadh Batch No. 47

Most cult whiskies encompass entire distilleries, either alive (Ardbeg, Macallan) or, usually, dead (Port Ellen, Pappy Van Winkle, Brora, Rosebank, etc). But Aberlour A'bunadh is perhaps the only one whose cult status does not extend to other whiskies from their distillery (if I'm wrong, let me know!) A'bunadh ("the original" in Gaelic)...

Score 89/100

Aberlour A'bunadh Batch No. 39

I found myself with an older batch of the wonderful a'bunadh, this one being batch 39. Let's do a side-by-side with batch 49 (which I had scored a 91 about 11 months ago). The 39 is a freshly opened bottle. The colour is a dark reddish copper. On the nose, damp tobacco, rum-raisin, medium dark chocolate, blood orange, black cherry, cloves and...

Score 94/100

Aberlour A'bunadh

Aberlour A'bunadh batch 46 (cask strength (60.4% ABV)). Oh dear, this is not good. Nose: Kind of confused sherrybourbonvanilla influence. Nothing like Batch 45. Some menthol maybe? Palate: Similar to the nose, a combination of sherrybourbon. But it’s flabby. The beautiful oak spices of 45 are gone. It’s very hazy with the addition of water. Nasty...

Score 75/100