Clynelish 12 Year Old Friends of Classic Malts

Clynelish 17yo 1992 Cadenhead Bourbon HH

Nose: First that hits me is baked banana, some smoke and smells from a farm near the sea like hay, cowdung, salty sea air. Vanilla is there, but nicely hidden between the other smells. Also a sour yellow grapefruitpeelnote comes later on. Palate: Big sweet barley, cigarsmoke, ginger, honey and a little candlewax. The sweet slowly gives way to...

Score 91/100

Clynelish 12 Year Old Diageo Special Releases 2022

Matured on a combination of refill American oak and PX/Oloroso 'seasoned' barrels. N: The first sniff is sweet on baked apples, pancake sugar (the light brown Graeffe variety), salted caramel and butterscotch, dry apricots and some birch sap. You have to wait a minute or two for it, but eventually the almost obligatory beeswax also appears. Feel...

Score 89/100

Clynelish 14 Year Old

This is the Douglas Laing & Co 'Old Malt Cask' bottling (not the one pictured). The smell is initially sea salt, peat, smoke and even a hint of iodine, but gives way to a fruity, vanilla, toffee sweetness. Despite having such strong sounding flavours, it is a genuinely gentle nose. So much so, that after the glass of Smith's 8 Year old, I had...

Score 91/100

Clynelish Cask Strength Distillery Only

This Clynelish can only be obtained in the shop of the distillery. It’s a cask strength with the color of white wine. It was bottled in 2008. The nose differs quite a bit from the standard 14 Year Old, but this one is very complex as well. While peat and smoke are barely discernable, it’s very sweet with mostly lime and a touch of pineapple. It...

Score 90/100