Dufftown 27 Year Old 1982 Bladnoch

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

Singleton of Dufftown 12 Year Old

I mainly picked this whisky up because of two things. first, solid reviews on major whisky sites. Second, it's a rather stunning bottle. Yes a bit of a shame ultimately deciding on the packaging but the thin elegant convexed bottle is without a doubt a real looker. But how does it live up the hype? On the nose you got raisins, sherry, a bit of...

Score 72/100

Singleton of Dufftown 12 Year Old

1895 saw the dawning of two new forms of art: Cinema and Comics, the Seventh and Ninth arts, respectevely. It also so the birth of the eponymous distillery in the little burgh of Dufftown, burgh aptly nicknamed "Whisky Capital of the World". Interesting year. Today we face the entry level scotch of the house, a 12-year-old single malt...

Score 77/100

Singleton of Dufftown 12 Year Old

This was the 12th whisky tasted in my journey, and was my May 2011 bottle. I've just finished it and was really trying to find something in the last few drams in order to write something meaningful here. The marketing 'spin' is all there on their website and Facebook pages. The build up suggests something great is going to happen on opening this,...

Score 78/100