Singleton of Auchroisk 10 Year Old 1L

Auchroisk 19 Year Old 1996 Kintra

Auchroisk is one of those unknown distilleries built, in 1974, by the forerunner of Diageo, to provide malts for the increasing demand for blends, most notably for J&B – Justerine & Brooks or sometimes Junk & Bullshit when people are in a foul mood… The malt is hardly obtainable as official release, but you can come across it by...

Score 85/100

Auchroisk The Boutique-y Whisky Company - Batch 7

I know almost nothing about Auchroisk, other that it is in Banffshire and a lot of what the distillery produces goes into the J&B blends. So when the LCBO dropped its price on the 2019 advent calendar by about 50%, the fact that this untried (by me) distillery was a part of it helped to persuade me to buy it. This expression, tasted in a...

Score 80/100

Auchroisk Singleton 1975 Vintage

Nowadays, depending on where you are on the globe, you can buy a bottle of Singleton from one of three Diageo distilleries: Glen Ord, Dufftown or Glendullan. Why they ever chose one brand to represent three different distilleries, I’ll never understand. But as singleton is basically Diageo’s answer to budget malts like Glenfiddich or Glenlivet, no...

Score 82/100

Auchroisk 20 Year Old Cask Strength

This semi-limited release (less than 6000 bottles) from Diageo’s Classic Malts lineup of 2010 is one of the few OBs of Auchroisk since the demise of their Singleton brand in 2000. It’s a Speyside distillery that doesn’t get much attention, as most of its output finds its way into such blends as J&B Rare and Johnnie Walker Red Label. It’s also...

Score 89/100