Auchentoshan 11 Year Old Duthies Cadenhead

Auchentoshan 17 Year Old 1996 Berry Bros & Rudd

Berry Brothers & Rudd from London has already brought six Auchentoshan to the market. This is one of their more recent releases, a 17 Year Old from 1996. The pale color strongly suggests a bourbon cask. The nose is quite closed and needs hand warmth to open up. Barley sugars, grasses, citrus fruit, vanilla and some nougat. Some wild flowers...

Score 84/100

Auchentoshan Three Wood

I'm generally not a fan of the sherry woods, but this one gets it right. Matured in three different types of casks, they strike a good balance. This is what I like to pour for people who claim they don't like scotch. Even the most skeptical ladies end up liking it most of the time.

Score 65/100

Auchentoshan 12 Year Old Clydebank Centenary

This ceramic croc was released in 1986 to celebrate 100 years of shipbuilding industry along the Clydebank. So it contains Auchentoshan from the early ‘70s of last century. The nose needs a bit of time to open up (which does not come as a surprise when you consider the fact that it has been locked up for almost 30 years). It turns nicely fruity on...

Score 86/100

Auchentoshan 15 Year Old 1998 Kintra

This single cask of Auchentoshan yielded 168 bottles. I got to know it at the Whisky Festival for Independent Bottlers in Belgium last April. Someone pointed out to me that there was a Peaty toshan to be had. Obviously that is not possible. So I hurried over to Erik Molenaar’s booth and got me a sip. I get the typical Auchentoshan traits on the...

Score 87/100