Banff 34 Year Old 1976 Connoisseurs Choice Gordon & MacPhail

Banff 1982 21 Year Old

Nose: Clean, nutty nose, with citrus and new oak. Something of dry straw. Overall quite acid and a metallic, but this is better when it warms up. Mouth: agressive attack, quite alcoholic and sharp. Starts on oranges and malt with vanilla. Develops some really interesting notes of cape gooseberries (physalis), too bad they fade quickly. Finish:...

Score 82/100

Banff 22 Year Old 1974 Connoisseurs Choice

Oh, look now, my 10th Banff. This Speyside distillery closed its doors in 1983 and has since been demolished. There's only one official bottling, the 21-year-old from 1982 in the Rare Malts Selection, bottled in 2004 (which I tasted in 2017). What I'm tasting today is a 22-year-old from 1974 that was bottled in 1997. So it has been in the bottle...

Score 87/100

Banff 36 Year Old 1978 Cadenhead Small Batch

Cadenhead, under the impulse of Mark Watt, has just released a new series named Small Batch. He returned to the old fashioned look that Cadenhead employed in the late Sixties of last century. I love that retro style. I tried a magnificent Highland Park 1988 in that range and now I will try the Banff 1978. The distillery closed since 1983 and has...

Score 91/100

Banff 38yo 1975/2013 Malts of Scotland

Banff one of those distilleries almost entirely scrapped from the Speyside annals, widely loved by those who got a taste, but so much more obscure than many other of her lost contemporaries. To put it simply: popular like a Port Ellen, beclouded like a Glenesk. Now that nature is slowly reclaiming the last few standing walls on site, it might be...

Score 91/100