Scapa 17 Year Old 1993 Old Malt Cask Douglas Laing

Scapa 1983 Vintage G&M

In the last few months Scapa finally emerged from the shadows as a single malt distillery: new bottlings (even a peated !?! release), a visitors centre and unfortunately they too are ditching that ‘cumbersome’ age statement. With whiskies like the Orcadian, an NAS release by Scapa, we are far from the era where independent bottler Gordon &...

Score 76/100

Scapa 16 Year Old

I think Scapa 16 is underrated. It is a nice craft-oriented dram that really hit the spot after I gave a lecture yesterday and needed a respite. It does have a strange tincture mixed in with biscuit, short bread, toffee, autumn leaves on the forest loam after a loam, moss, and nougat--probably due to peat in the water used to make it(?), but I...

Score 86/100

Scapa 16 Year Old

Scapa distillery is located at the head of Scapa bay, south-west of Kirkwall on the main island of the Orkney isles, and was established as a private company in 1885. Production was stopped between 1934 and 1936 after then owners Scapa Distillery Co. Ltd. had gone into liquidation, and the distillery was mothballed in 1994, although from 1997 on a...

Score 84/100

Scapa Skiren

The Skiren from Scapa is their NAS offering that should make you forget about the 16 Year Old. The Skiren were an East Germanian tribe that originally lived in today’s Poland. Around 230 BC they moved south, towards the Black Sea. What the link with Scapa is, remains a mystery to me. Let us get down to tasting this baby. Wonderfully sweet with a...

Score 82/100