Macduff 1969 35 Year Old Sherry Cask Duncan Taylor

Macduff 9 Year Old 2008 Duncan Taylor The Octave

Duncan Taylor has a series called ‘The Octave’, in which the whisky matures (or is finished) in smaller casks. Maturation is faster as there is more contact between the spirit and the wood. Hence the whisky can be bottled sooner, in the case of this Macduff at 9 years old (along with some sister casks). In this case, it was a sherry cask. Dark and...

Score 85/100

Macduff 30 Year Old Malts of Scotland

Over the last few months, I’ve learned to appreciate the Macduff distillery and it’s whisky. Apart from the somewhat mediocre entry malt Glen Deveron 10 Year Old (recently repackaged and joined by a 15 Year Old), I enjoyed the Macduff 1984 for Thosop and the fantastic Macduff 2000 for The Bonding Dram Belgium (which I helped select, by the way)....

Score 90/100

Macduff 11 Year Old 2002 'Lead on, Macduff!' Wemyss

Macduff hardly reaches the market as single malt. It is put out as Glen Deveron. But the lion’s share goes into blends like Williams Lawson’s. Let us try a Macduff that was bottled by the indie Wemyss in 2013. The nose is honeysweet with a truckload of vanilla, caramel, grain cookies and ginger. Add some citrus as well as some freshly cut grass....

Score 80/100

Macduff 9 Year Old 2012 Asta Morris

Look here... another Macduff for Asta Morris. Crazy Bert apparently also likes this one a lot, because it's already his fifth cask. Could it be that this is a sister cask of the Macduff he released last year? #AM020 was also a former sherry cask from 2012 and I loved it. Yes! What a delicious nose. Sweet, very sweet on toffee apples, sultanas,...

Score 87/100