Auchentoshan 16 Year Old Duthies Cadenhead

Auchentoshan 12 Year Old

eye: nice viscosity, standard bee-honey color. nose: a lot of dried figs, hints of apple cider and fresh green apple, smashed - not entirely mature - greenish banana, light vanilla, discreet caramel and toffee notes, bright raisins, impressions of almond paste (marzipan), powdered sugar, fresh springtime flowers (not to sweet, more delicate),...

Score 84/100

Auchentoshan 1966 31 Year Old Cask #803

Today I'm trying my last 'old' Auchentoshan for now. I don't mean old in age (although this is a very respectful 31-year old), but old in terms of date of distillation. It was distilled on 14th March 1966, almost four years before I was born. Some connoisseurs call this 'old style' Auchentoshan. The fact that it is part of the Distillery Archive...

Score 90/100

Auchentoshan 37 Year Old 1974 Bourbon Cask #5613

The newest release from my favourite distillery is a 37 Year Old single cask, bourbon barrel #5613, which I had the pleasure of tasting in June 2011 in the Blender’s Room during my visit to the distillery in Glasgow (along with a whole bunch of cask samples by the way). I thought it was magnificent (and so did Niek who used the sample for his...

Score 91/100

Auchentoshan 31 Year Old 1966 Cask #1005

In the nineties of last century, Auchentoshan bottled quite a few single casks from 1965 and 1966. One of those is this bourbon hogshead with number 1005, filled at 46,1% after 31 long years of maturation. The bottle hit the shelves in 1997 and is nowadays both rare and prohibitively expensive. I opened up my bottle at my birthday tasting and have...

Score 91/100