Auchentoshan 12 Year Old QE2

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 1979 Oloroso 32 Year Old

from a purchased sample Nose: Light varnish and a little sweet leather. Develops on dates, prunes, golden raisins, and cinnamon. The varnish is a little bitter-sweet orange zest. Chocolate, caramel, and marzipan come out as this gets some air. Eventually the sherry clarifies and offers up a few sweet cherries. It's high on marmalade and jams. A...

Score 92/100

Auchentoshan 18 Year Old 1999 Château Lafite Cadenheads

If you visit Cadenhead’s in Campbeltown, at the end of the tour you can bottle a so-called Cask End. My good friend Chris brought me back this special Auchentoshan from 1999. Special because the whisky, after an initial maturation in a bourbon cask, was re-casked into a Château Lafite cask. Lafite is a wine region in Bordeaux in the city of...

Score 89/100

Auchentoshan Valinch 2011 Release

Quite excited about this one, my first Auchentoshan and my very first Lowland whisky ever. Nose: Has got quite a sharp punch on the nose due to the alcohol content, very sweet, icing sugar and a touch of light honey, some citrus rind oils, a good sweet maltiness, a bit of dessert spice (nutmeg, cinnamon sugar and cooked vinilla), after a bit of...

Score 88/100