While plenty of people jump on a dark, obviously sherry matured Clynelish, I'm not one of them. Nevertheless, I'm always willing to try one every now and then.
It's been over four years ago that I wrote one of my favourite blog posts. Its central subject was the Clynelish Select Reserve, and now I finally had the chance to taste it.
The re-opening of neighbour Brora was the biggest whisky news of 2017. Far less people know that the current Clynelish distillery was actually closed for a large part of the same year, and re-opened halfway through 2017.
I never realised how rare Clynelish from 1974 is, until I checked Whiskybase. Turns out there have only ever been eight different bottlings from this vintage.