Fettercairn 24 Year Old 1984

Fettercairn 875 8 Year Old bottled 1970s

My experience with Fettercairn is rather limited. I only had three so far. But what I will be tasting today is as good as impossible to find nowadays. This is an 8 Year Old Fettercairn that was bottled way back for the Italian market. The nose is very grainy and slightly metallic. Silver polish. Malt. Peach and oranges with loads of floral...

Score 79/100

Fettercairn 23 Year Old 1989 Blackadder Raw Cask

I tried this Fettercairn before at a tasting. It was my first encounter with this distillery, but the circumstances were not ideal (we had just tried a couple of cracker drams). So I took home a sample to try it again, in quieter surrounding. The nose is soft and grainy. I get hints of citrus and sour apples, a lot of caramel and a pinch of...

Score 83/100

Fettercairn Fior

Been looking at getting this for a while, due to both hearing good things about it and it been a distillery I've never heard of. Bottle looks great as well. Nose: considering it's bottled at the relatively low strength of 42% the nose is quite punchy, has a big hit of sherry, with stewed fruits and fig, some good flavours of creamy expresso and...

Score 87/100

Fettercairn 30 y.o (1966-1996)

This is another dram I was fortunate enough to sample. NOSE: smoky pickled veggies (cucumbers in particular). Vanilla, very delicate, very nuanced. Dry woody nose with fresh fruits underneath those pickles. With time these pickles completely disappear, giving way to floral notes, spices, some strawberry jam, honey dried fruit and shortbread. ...

Score 83/100