Glen Scotia 5 Year Old Bottled 1970s

Glen Scotia 17 Year Old 1992 Malts of Scotland

Let’s dig up an old (well, somewhat) Glen Scotia. It was distilled in 1992 and after 17 years of slumber in a sherry cask, bottled in 2010 by German indie Malts of Scotland. At cask strength, mind you. When I first tried it, I could not please me, but that was the very first time I tried Glen Scotia. This was 7 years ago and my palate has...

Score 83/100

Glen Scotia 1991 'Merchant's Mahogany Chest' Wemyss

We just tried the Glen Scotia 1991 ‘Strawberry Ganache’ by Wemyss and put that head-to-head with this Glen Scotia 1991 ‘Merchant’s Mahogany’s Chest’, which was bottled a year later. The similarities might seem self-explanatory, were it not for the differences. Again an active sherry cask, but quite some nuances here. Less fruit, but more leather...

Score 86/100

Glen Scotia Wilson & Morgan 1991 20 Year Old

I bet you forgot that there's another distillery in Campbeltown besides Springbank! That would be Glen Scotia, founded in the 1830s by the Galbraith family, who owned the distillery for the rest of the 1800s. It is now owned by Loch Lomond distillery. It is easy to ignore Glen Scotia, given the stature of neighbouring Springbank and the sporadic...

Score 84/100

Glen Scotia 10 Year Old 2008 Campbeltown Malts Festival 2018

I was truly impressed with Glen Scotia’s 2019 festival release, a 15 years old on rum casks. As luck would have it, I also got a sample of the previous year’s festival bottling. This time around, it’s a 10 years old Glen Scotia finished on rum casks. Let’s get to it. This is a rather sweet nose in which the peat plays only second fiddle. Lots of...

Score 82/100