Auchentoshan 1966 44 Year Old

Auchentoshan 16 Year Old 2000 Signatory UCF

A lot of casks of my beloved Auchentoshan have appeared in the Un-Chillfiltered Collection by Signatory. In November 2016 this 16 Year Old – taken from 2 bourbon barrels – was released. Strangely enough, only 142 bottles were released, making me think this must have been split casks. Unless, of course, they had leaked like a sieve. Sister casks...

Score 85/100

Auchentoshan 12 Year Old 1999 Malts of Scotland Warehouse Range

Malts of Scotland recently opened a visitor center in Paderborn (Germany), where you will also find the warehouses in which several of Thomas Ewers’ casks are maturing. Some of these were bottled in a special Warehouse Range and are only available at the visitor center. I was able to secure two of the 175 bottles. They contain a beautifully...

Score 90/100

Auchentoshan 15 Year Old 1999 The Ultimate

We will stay with The Ultimate for a while, because through my buddy Marcel from the Netherlands I was able to get a sample of a sister cask, namely bourbon barrel #800257 that was put to sleep in 1999 and bottled after 15 years, although cut to 46%. The nose is bursting with lime juice and grass. Wet, green grass to be exact. Like a football...

Score 83/100

Auchentoshan Select

With the arrival of het new duty free releases of Auchentoshan last March, my contact at Auchentoshan told me the Select, which moved to duty free in favor of the Classic, will slowly but surely be phased out. So I went out of my way to secure a few more bottles. Having said that, we are trying a bottling from 2004 at this time. This one, despite...

Score 75/100