Cragganmore 19 Year Old 1992 Rare Auld Duncan Taylor

Cragganmore 11 Year Old 1999 Malts of Scotland

This Cragganmore that matured on a bourbon hogshead for 11 years, yielded 298 bottles. It is part of a new set of releases by Malts of Scotland, the German Indie that is slowly but surely building up an ironclad reputation in Belgium and far beyond with its single cask bottlings at cask strength. This one has a beautiful color and beads nicely....

Score 84/100

Cragganmore 2005 Distillers Edition (bottled 2018)

Nose: smells exactly as I hoped it would. Clean malt and a luscious bouquet of fruit. All kinds of fruit, too: citrus, grape, cherries, red berries. Yet for all that fruit it doesn't smell like port; the casks are in perfect harmony with the malt and the fruitiness comes across as natural to this whisky rather than added on. Like the standard...

Score 93/100

Cragganmore 15 Year Old 1999 Malts of Scotland

Let me start by saying that an incomprehensible typo can be found on the label. The whisky is called Craggenmore instead of Cragganmore. Oh, well. This is, by the way, only the second Cragganmore that Malts of Scotland has released. This one is 15 years old and will cost you about 70 EUR. The nose is very clean on sweet malt and a basket of citrus...

Score 84/100

Cragganmore 25 Year Old / Special Releases 2014

The Diageo Special Releases are back! Always a bit of a feast for whisky lovers, I think. I’ll try one of them, but one that was released several years ago. This Cragganmore 1988 was released in 2014 after a quarter century in the cask. The nose is very musty, as if I am sitting in the attic. This is not disturbing in the least. After some...

Score 87/100