9.3
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Oh my god! Even a week after finishing this sample, I still can't get it out of my head. What an exceptional whisky!
9.3
1 min read
I recently had the chance to taste my oldest Linkwood to date, a 40 year old from 1973 bottled by Gordon & MacPhail. Quite the exclusive whisky :)
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A 40 year old blended malt whisky for 230 euros? What the hell?! The Timorous Beastie 40 Years Old delivers!
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A flight of five incredible new expressions from Douglas Laing's XOP-range with an accumulative age of 176 years. Macallan, Littlemill, Laphroaig, Glen Garioch and North British.
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A tad heavier than the most recent iteration of the Vega, if I remember correctly, in which I found some more subtleties. Still, a cracking whisky, and one that (if you were able to get one at original retail price) provides a whole lot of bang for your buck.
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Over the past few years we've been treated to numerous excellent examples of Speyside whiskies from the 1970s, either undisclosed single malts or blended malts.
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Good, old school distillate with plenty of oak influence. Proper stuff from Glenfarclas.
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Glenfarclas isn't too keen on independent bottlers using their name, so the bottlers find creative ways at suggesting the contents of a particular bottling without upsetting the Grant family. Blairfindy is what Blackadder settled on.
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A 40-year-old Banff at a dangerously low cask strength makes for a good whisky not.
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When you spill 40-year-old Glenfarclas on your keyboard...
9.1
3 min read
The first annual batch of Benromach 40 Years takes us back into time, essentially to a closed distillery that is no longer with us.
9.1
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A review of the 2022 Release of the Benromach 40 Years, which matured exclusively in sherry casks.
