Glen Scotia 1990 Gordon & Macphail

Glen Scotia 20 Year Old 1992 Thosop

Lately, quite a few Glen Scotia from 1992 have been released, I feel. They are somewhat hit & miss if you ask me, but I have to admit, I am not very fond of Glen Scotia. I can only remember a few good ones. This Glen Scotia (which is Gaelic for valley of Scotland) matured on a refill sherry hogshead and was bottled by Thosop, reknowned for the...

Score 85/100

Glen Scotia 14 Year Old Campbeltown Festival 2020

The festival was cancelled, but the festival bottling certainly hit the market with no less than 15.000 bottles. You can find it left and right for around 70 EUR. It’s a 14 years old Glen Scotia that matured on Tawny Port casks, which explains the color. I’m looking forward to this. The nose makes me happy from the very first moment. Lovely, round...

Score 86/100

Glen Scotia 16 Year Old

A distillery that needed some love and a good injection of cash, which it received a few years ago when they did away with the disco cows and put forth a basic but interesting range **Nose:** Fresh, butterscotch, waxy fruits, slightly floral with a kind of greasy, inky feeling underneath. Fresh cut apples,ginseng, a touch of cardboard & glue...

Score 84/100

SMWS 93.38 - Stirs the atavistic soul

Reading my notes back for this whisky, I'm convinced its one of those bottles that a) you would never expect, b) would probably never choose to taste based on your own notes, and c) you're so glad exists once you've tried it. This was bottle number 2 in the SMWS' May "flight" (4 samples of whisky from their May out-turn). I'm just going...

Score 80/100