Clynelish 1965 28 Year Old Sherry Cask Signatory

Clynelish 1983 Samaroli, 19 Year Old, cask #2685

sample from a friend Nose: Waxy, coastal, and with sweet barley and hints of vanilla. Extremely graceful, almost sweet (not candied) ginger. Lemon zest and pith (waxiness), drop of peach juice. Yellow acidic grapes, wet stones, and freshly spun cotton candy. More wax than smoke, and clearly a well-made and excellent dram. The vanilla turns more...

Score 92/100

Clynelish 15 Year Old 1997 The Whisky Mercenary for Beproefd

Beproefd.be is a Flemish drinks writers collective of which I know a couple personally. To promote their site, they thought it would be a nice idea to release a limited bottling. In collaboration with The Whisky Mercenary they launched 65 bottles of a cask strength 15 years old Clynelish 1997. I already know that this is a good vintage. On the...

Score 89/100

Clynelish 24 Year Old 1990 Adelphi

I confess, in the past few weeks I seem to have developed some kind of fetish for Clynelish. That’s not too hard as it’s such a good whisky. And through a friend in Holland I was able to get a sample of this 24 Year Old from Adelphi. Party! Deliciously tropical nose on lemon, pineapple, vanilla ice cream (!) and paraffin. Sugard lime peel. Turkish...

Score 86/100

Clynelish 14 Year Old

Clynelish distillery is situated near Brora on the north-eastern coast of Scotland. It was built in 1968, next to the original Clynelish distillery which was closed. The original distillery was reopened in May 1969 under the name of Brora and until July 1973 produced a heavily peated whisky to supply the blending industry; this was done to cover a...

Score 85/100