Deanston 1994 15 Year Old Old Malt Cask #6043 Douglas Laing

Deanston 20 Year Old 1999 Klubb23

The member of Klubb23 – yes, there’s only 23 of them, hence the name – selected this 20 years old Deanston and put the Creature of the Black Lagoon on the label. ‘Wild and distinguished’, they call it. Let’s find out. It is very, very pale. Freshy nose on green tea, young apples, aniseed and coriander and some green garden herbs. Very herbal, in...

Score 85/100

Deanston 12 Year Old

Deanston is very much an unrecognised and understated malt. It's an honest and somewhat simple malt with craft presentation. Nothing wrong with it. * Nose: vanilla, cherry wood, malt, banana, lemon, little note of grain whisky (or something like it), light oak, white pepper and some candied floral notes. With water very similar to the neat version...

Score 83/100

Deanston 22 Year Old 1996 The Golden Cask Reserve

A few years ago House of Macduff, Scottish indie, bottled this 22 years old Deanston in their well-known series The Gold Cask, which is reserved for single cask releases at cask strength. Well, that nose is something else. Not very fruity – and the fruit that I do get has started to rot, which is not an off-note – but mostly notes of pastry and...

Score 88/100

Deanston Virgin Oak

As mentioned in part I, all these whiskys were evaluated blind during my last club meeting. This is from a recent batch with the new livery and bottle shape. Deanston has been receiving a lot more attention of late. I believe that much like Bunnahabhain a few years ago owners Burns Stewart injected a good amount of capital in their operations. In...

Score 83/100