Imperial 17 Year Old 1995 Cask 9270 Old Malt Cask Douglas Laing

Imperial 1995 Signatory for K&L, cask 50135

Nose: Rich honey, and very cereal and grainy. All great stuff. Some vanilla and cake frosting. Sweet lemon custard with a slight edge to it. A few drops of anise. Essence of summer flowers with a side of wild strawberries. (with water) Lots more sugary sweetness and buttery sweet cake frosting. Vanilla. Just a few echoes of the flowers and wax....

Score 87/100

Imperial 19 Year Old 1995 Signatory

This whisky is literally a week shy of being 20 years, as it was distilled on 18th September 1995 and bottled on the 11th September 2015. Quite pale, this is taken from a cask in the Signatory warehouses. They seem to have an unlimited stock of Imperial, as they have bottled dozens of casks from 1995 with the numbers 50XXX. So this bottling is...

Score 83/100

Imperial 1998/2015 G&M for Whisky Mercenary

Imperial, the only lost-distillery still suited for a poor man’s pockets (under the €100) ? Not anymore, with this release of the whisky mercenary, I’m paying for the first time more than a hundred for a bottle of Imperial goodness. These are truly sad times, gents and ladies. But who knows, a 17yo whisky with the stamp of approval from Belgium’s...

Score 86/100

Imperial Signatory Cask Strength 1995 16yo

Maltmadness have some interesting info on this distillery and it does seem to be one of the most obscure ones. As of 2013 it has been demolished with plans in place to build a new distillery. At 57.8% I've added water immediately. The nose is a bit odd - hard to decipher but I get burnt sugar with a bit of earthiness. Toffee-liquorice becomes...

Score 71/100