Auchroisk 13 Year Old 1998 Boisdale Collection

Auchroisk 19 Year Old 1996 Kintra

Auchroisk is one of those unknown distilleries built, in 1974, by the forerunner of Diageo, to provide malts for the increasing demand for blends, most notably for J&B – Justerine & Brooks or sometimes Junk & Bullshit when people are in a foul mood… The malt is hardly obtainable as official release, but you can come across it by...

Score 85/100

Auchroisk 12 Year Old 1978 Cadenhead’s

This might in fact be very exciting. An old Auchroisk from last Century, distilled in 1979 (so in the fifth year of the distillery’s existence) and bottled in 1990 by Cadenhead in their famous black dumpy bottles. The stuff spent double the time in the bottle than it did on the cask. Here goes. Err.. hang on.. I’m not so sure what to make of this...

Score 76/100

Auchroisk 30 Year Old / Special Releases 2012

Auchroisk (pronounced ‘o-thrusjk’) is one of the lesser known distilleries, founded in 1974 to create bulk malt for the blenders with Justerini & Brooks as primary client. Luckily it is sometimes also bottled as single malt. This Auchroisk was presented in Diageo’s Special Release of 2012. It is one of the oldest – in terms of maturation –...

Score 88/100

Auchroisk 16 Year Old 2002 First Editions for Whisky Festival Gent

The International Malt Whisky Festival Gent offers visitors a unique festival bottling. This year it was a single cask of Auchroisk 2002, of which 246 bottles were released. It was bottled by Edition Spirits, a company that has been usurped by Hunter Laing (it was the company of the sons who tried to go it alone, but daddy stepped in). Sweet nose...

Score 84/100