Auchroisk 22 Year Old 1988 The Octave Duncan Taylor

Auchroisk The Singleton 1975

The Singleton is among the best selling brands for Diageo, but it’s an umbrella brand. Depending on where you live in the world, you’ll get a different malt. Today there is a Singleton of Dufftown (Europa), Singleton of Glendullan (USA) and Singleton of Glen Ord (Asia). Many moons ago there was also a Singleton of Auchroisk, but that is now...

Score 80/100

Auchroisk 13 Year Old 1998 C&S Dram Collection

Auchroisk – pronounce o-thrusk – is a rather unknown distillery in Speyside, founded in 1974. She produces predominantly for blends such as J&B and Johnnie Walker. You will not find Auchroisk as a single malt in abundance. There is only a Fauna & Flora bottling, a Singleton version and a Special Release by Diageo. 2012 also saw the oldest...

Score 84/100

Auchroisk The Boutique-y Whisky Company - Batch 7

I know almost nothing about Auchroisk, other that it is in Banffshire and a lot of what the distillery produces goes into the J&B blends. So when the LCBO dropped its price on the 2019 advent calendar by about 50%, the fact that this untried (by me) distillery was a part of it helped to persuade me to buy it. This expression, tasted in a...

Score 80/100

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