Clynelish 1997 Bottled 2012 Cask #6864 Berry Bros & Rudd

Clynelish 18 Year Old 1995 The Auld Alliance

The Auld Alliance is a prestigious whisky bar in Singapore run by a French guy – Emmanuel Dron – and his lovely wife. I have the pleasure of knowing the owners, but have not yet been to Singapore myself. Emmanuel selects casks himself for his bar from time to time and this is one of those: a Clynelish from 1995. This was already six years ago now,...

Score 86/100

Clynelish 16 Year Old 1997 Carn Mor

Clynelish 1997 is slowly but surely becoming legendary and I like to think it all started with a release that I helped select for The Bonding Dram. That one is still considered, not just by me, to be the best so far, so it is not that much of a self-fulfilling prophecy. This new release by Carn Mor was bottled at drinking strength. Waxy nose on...

Score 86/100

Clynelish 37 Year Old (TWE 10th Anniversary)

Sukhinder Singh bottled a lot of good whiskies for the 10th anniversary of his shop The Whisky Exchange in 2009. One of those was this – already sold out – Clynelish 37 Year Old. About 200 bottles were released, acoording to Tim from TWE. Oh, my, this is something else… It starts off very fruity with blood oranges and pear, but also some tropical...

Score 93/100

Clynelish 12 Year Old 1997 Exclusive Range CWC

David Stirk, the man behind the Creative Whisky Company, bottled this Clynelish last year at the age of 12 in his Exclusive Range. The pale colour is explained by the fact that it was a refill bourbon hogshead. The nose is quite sharp, but then it’s a young Clynelish beast. Citrus dominates, heavily spiced with nutmeg. A bit of candle wax. Reminds...

Score 84/100