Dufftown 13 Year Old 1999 cask 9659 Provenance (Douglas Laing)

Dufftown The Singleton of Dufftown 17 Year Old 2002 Diageo Special Releases 2020

This Singleton contains malt from the Dufftown distillery and matured solely on refill American oak. Nicely fresh and reminds me of spring. Lots of hay and corn flakes with apple sauce and lime, honey and fresh ginger. Pear drops! Elegant nose. Suspiciously soft on the palate. Creamy and sweet on liquorice, apples and pears with honey. The...

Score 84/100

Singleton of Dufftown 12 Year Old

Nose: quite full with lots of fresh oak and nutty malt accents. Seems they did a good job maturing the stuff, as the aroma displays the sort of richness you only get from combining different cask types. I liked it right off the bat. Taste: initially sweet with the orchard fruit flavours typical of a Speyside malt. Dries pretty quickly, though,...

Score 79/100

Dufftown Glenlivet 8 Year Old bottled 1970s 75.7cl

Ooh, and old bottling of Dufftown, when then-owner Arthur Bell & Sons still put Dufftown-Glenlivet on their label and were allowed to call their 8 years old a Pure Malt. This is a bottling from the 1980s. Ouch! The bottle was clearly not sealed well enough. The whisky shows apple and gooseberries, but this is overpowered by an unruly sourness...

Score 50/100

Dufftown 1984 / 26 Year Old / Refill Sherry Butt #79

This Dufftown 1984 slept 26 long years on a sherry butt, giving it a bright copper colour and a cask strength of 55%. The nose needs a bit of time to open up. It all begins rather simple on apples and pears, but after a few moments offers a whole lot more. Coffee, jam of mirabelles and cherries, hint of milk chocolate. Then some roasted and...

Score 86/100