Auchentoshan Black Ceramic 10 Year Old 850th Anniversary

Auchentoshan 12 Year Old

Nose: gentle. Light citrus, a bit of chocolate fudge, and...a touch of smoke? I swear I'm not crazy, it's there. Not exactly peat smoke, maybe more like faint cigar ash. Also some florals. Summer meadow. Not the most captivating nose ever, but still interesting. Taste: light- to medium-bodied. That smoke I noticed on the nose is more apparent now....

Score 74/100

Auchentoshan 14 Year Old 2002 Provenance

Provenance is a series by Douglas Laing and I already tasted 3 Auchentoshan bottled under this label, an 11-year-old from 2000, a 12-year-old from 2001 and a 13-year-old from 2002. Douglas Laing released a 14-year-old in 2016 and that now sits in my glass. On the nose, it's rather simple, I must confess. A heart of malt with sugars, cut grass and...

Score 81/100

Auchentoshan 13 Year Old 1998 Exclusive Malts Creative Whisky Company

This bottling dates back to the time when David Stirk was the owner of the Creative Whisky Company. An Auchentoshan in the Exclusive Malts series? Well, of course. The cask yielded 228 cask strength bottles. It has been in the closet for almost ten years now, but for my 52nd birthday I decided to open it. The nose is very clean. Citrus and a lot...

Score 83/100

Auchentoshan 18 Year Old 1978 The Merchant's Collection

I found this bottle at the very cozy Whisky on a Sunday event in Ghent. I had not seen it before and hence not yet tried it. It was still a third full so I convinced the owner to sell it to me. It was launched in 1996 for the Italian market. Just to put it in perspective: it was distilled when I was an 8-year old kid playing with Star Wars action...

Score 82/100