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Miltonduff 35 Year Old 1966 Douglas Laing Old Malt Cask

This Miltonduff has spent more than a decade in the bottle and matured for 35 years before that. It was distilled before I was born and bottled under the famous banner Old Malt Cask. Since the split of the Douglas Laing company, OMC is no longer part of Fred Laing’s company, but part of his brother Stewart’s new company Hunter Laing & Co. This...

Score 88/100

Miltonduff 11 Year Old 2004 Malts of Scotland

Judging by the dark color of what is in my glass, the spirit of this Miltonduff slept on a rather active sherry cask. First fill, most likely. Anyway, it is young: distilled in 2004 and bottled after 11 years. It clings to the glass with a vengeance. The nose is honeysweet on all kinds of dark fruit. Plums, rhubarb, grapes and raisins. Hint of...

Score 86/100

Miltonduff 7 Year Old 2011 Asta Morris

Milltonduff from Elgin is another one of those noble unknowns. Like Glenburgie, it is one of the more important malts in the famous blend Ballentine’s. And like Glenburgie, it really is worth getting to know it as a malt. By the way, did you know that it was at Miltonduff that from 1964 onward for twenty years they created another malt, using two...

Score 88/100

Miltonduff 8 Year Old 1999 Daily Dram

Miltonduff is one of the old distilleries, operational since 1824 (or even before that, albeit illegaly). It is one of the malts that gives body and character to blends like Ballantine's, Teacher's, Old Smuggler and Chivas Regal. But today we will try an independent bottling from Daily Dram. They dubbed this 8 Year Old ‘Mille Tonnes d'Oeufs’ (a...

Score 82/100