Here is a list of drams we have tried preceeded by a percentage. This figure represents how well the whisky fared in a consumer feedback test. Attendees at the tastings are asked for their opinion via a form giving a mark from zero (so poor the whisky deserves no points) to nine (full marks – ‘you can now die happy’). All the marks are collated and shown as a percentage of full marks.
30% Abhainn Dearg distilled 10.02.10 61.7%
53% Aberlour A’Bunadh No. 25 60.4%
62% Aberlour 27.06.95 – 12.03.10 14yo 63.3% first fill Bourbon cask
83% Amrut peated Indian single malt 62.78%
45% Amrut Fusion Indian single malt 50%
63% Amrut bottled 06/08 277 bottles 62.7% Blackadder
43% Antiquary 21yo 43%
61% Antiquary blend Early 20th century no strength stated
59% Ardbeg Rollercoaster 57.3%
76% Ardbeg Supernova 58.9%
66% Ardbeg Supernova 58.9% 100+ ppm
64% Ardbeg 1991 – 02/10 15yo 56% Bourbon hogshead 268 bottles Cadenheads
63% Ardbeg 15yo 1994 – 02/10 56.0% Bourbon hogshead 268 bottles Cadenheads
74% Ardbeg 1994 – 02/10 15yo 55.7% Bourbon hogshead 268 bottles Cadenheads
75% Ardbeg 1994 – 06/09 15yo Bourbon hogshead 284 bottles 58.1% Cadenheads
68% Ardbeg 1993 – 05/05 11yo 270 bottles Bourbon hogshead 57.4% Cadenheads
53% Ardmore 11yo 57.1% Bourbon hogshead Cadenheads
61% Ardmore 25yo 51.4%
29% Armorik French single malt 40%
61% Arran 96-09/09 13yo fino sherry hogshead 242 bottles 55.2% Cadenheads
67% ‘As We Get It’, single Islay malt, 8yo, 58% abv, Ian McLeod
68% Auchentoshan 19yo Bourbon Barrel
63% Auld Reekie 10yo Islay malt
“Baffo” Forever Edition no. 5 256 bottles 12.6.01 – 2027.3.09 7yo cask no. 48/2001 46% specially selected by Thomas Kruger
70% Bakery Hill peated single malt 60% barrel 6009
61% Ballantines 17yo 43%
37% Ballie Nicol Jarvie blend 40%
69% Banff 29yo 1976 – 06/06 52.0% Bourbon hogshead 228 bottles Cadenheads
56% Benromach 01.05.10 – 03.05.10 10yo 60.1% first fill Bourbon barrel
68% Benromach 28yo 57% Cadenheads
40% ‘Big Smoke’, Blended Islay malt, NAS, 60% abv, Duncan Taylor Limited
48% Birnie Moss ‘intensely peated’ 48% from Benriach distillery
Bowmore 1997 – 2009 11yo 57.9% 295 bottles Cadenheads
51% Bowmore same T as 19yo MWBH Bunny
68% ‘Breath of the Isles’, single cask single Islay malt, 13yo, Adelphi
74% Brora official bottling 25yo 56.3% bottled 2008 3000 bottles
60% Brora 1982 – 2008 refill sherry butts 43% Gordon & MacPhail
61% Bruichladdich Feis Ile Islay Barley 2004 Bottled 2010 57.5% fresh sherry butt
Bunnahabhain Darach Ur 46.3%
63% Bunnahabhain 19yo MWBH
75% Cambus single grain 27.7.91 – 10.9.9 18yo refill butt 664 bottles 51.9% Signatory
40% Cambus 30.03.86 – 30.03.10 24yo 54.7% Bladnoch Forum
63% Cameron Bridge single grain ?yo ?%: possibly 46% 30yo 1955 Cadenheads
63% Cameron Bridge single grain ?yo ?%: possibly 46% 30yo 1955 Cadenheads
47% Campbeltown Loch 30yo 40%
62% Caol Ila 55%
66% Caol Ila unpeated 10yo bottled 2009 65.8%
66% Caol Ila 13yo Butt Cadenheads
68% Caol Ila 1984 – 02/10 25yo Bourbon hogshead 55.2% 250 bottles Cadenheads
52% Caol Ila 13yo Bourbon hogshead Cadenheads
56% Caol Ila 11yo Golden Cask
69% Caol Ila 25yo hogshead Bladnoch Forum
42% Carn Mor Islay single malt
50% Canadian Indian corn distilled at Potters Distilling Co., Kelowna, B.C., 11yo 55.1% Cadenheads
43% Canadian Indian corn distilled at Potters Distilling Company, Kelowna, B.C., bottled 2000 Bourbon barrel 54.9% 360 bottles
62% Chichibu Newborn Japanese malt whisky spirit cask 127 distilled and bottled 2008 62.5%
46% Chivas Regal 25yo 40%
34% Glen Calder 40% blend Gordon & MacPhail
34% ‘Clan Denny vatted malt’ Caol Ila, Laphroaig, Bowmore & Bunnahabhain
70% Clynelish 14yo 46% sherry wood Duthies
64% Clynelish distiller’s edition 46% seco38% Dewars 12yo blend 43%
78% Convalmore 30yo 1977 – 09/07 61.6% butt 240 bottles Cadenheads
52% Cutty Sark 18yo blend 43%
68% Cutty Sark 25YO 46.7%
58% Dalmore 21yo 43%
36% Duthies Islay blended malt
32% ‘DYC’ blend 8yo 40%
43% Forty Creek Barrel Select Canadian 40%
52% ‘Frasers Reserve’ single Islay malt 40%
33% Frysk Hynder Holland 40%
67% Garnheath single grain 35yo 55.5% 180 50cl bottles Wood Winters
52% ‘Ginkgo’ vatted malt 46%
54% Glendronach 18yo Bourbon hogshead
73% Glen Elgin 30yo Bourbon hogshead
77% Glenfiddich 32yo 46.9% Cadenheads
77% Glenfiddich 32yo 46.9% Cadenheads
74% Glenglassaugh 17.12.76 28yo 254 bottles 50.8% Dormant Distillery Company
55% Glenisla 1877 28yo hogshead 48.6%
41% Glenkeir Treasures 40% (2 malts vatted: The Whisky Shop)
51% Glen Keith 1968 46% (triple distilled) Gordon & MacPhail
61% Glenlossie-Glenlivet 14yo port hogshead
71% Glenlossie March 1978 – September 2007 46% refill sherry hogsheads Gordon & MacPhail
58% Glen Mhor 1982 – 02/10 27yo 56.8% sherry cask 236 bottles Cadenheads
58% Glenrothes 1990 – 05/06 15yo butt 582 bottles 59.5% Cadenheads
50% Glenrozelieures French single malt 40%
33% Glentauchers 2006 – 2009 46% barrel 921 20cl bottles Carn Mor
36% Grenore 15yo Irish single grain 43%
76% Hazelburn 7yo 2001-06/09 4 small casks 316 bottles Cadenheads
73% Hazelburn 12yo 46%
65% Heaven Hill Bourbon 13yo 61.6% 177 bottles Cadenheads
39% Hibiki 12yo Japanese blend 43%
58% Highland Park 1992 – 06/09 17yo 64.0% butt 512 bottles Cadenheads
50% Highland Park 25yo 50.7%
38% Highland Park 17yo 46% Duthies
59% Highland Park 06.92-09.08 16yo Calvados cask finish 46% Alchemist
50% Highland Park 1973-2009 43% 1st fill sherry butt Gordon & MacPhail
49% Highland Park 1992 46% 14yo Bourbon/Chateau Lafite Murray McDavid
64% Highland Park Earl Magnus 1st ed. 15yo 52.6%
64% ‘Ileach’, single Islay malt, NAS, 58.0%, Highlands & Islands Scotch Whisky Co.Ltd.
71% Imperial 17/4/97 – 12/3/10 61.6% first fill sherry butt Gordon & MacPhail
55% Imperial 29yo Cadenheads
61% Inchgower 1993 – 2009 16yo 61.9% Bodega sherry cask
78% Invergordon 19.12.72 – 06.04.09 36yo 41.6% Bladnoch Forum
61% Inverleven 1987 – 05/06 18yo 57.9% Bourbon hogshead 276 bottles Cadenheads
60% ‘Islay’, single Islay malt, 5yo, 58.4%, Signatory Vintage
40% Islay Storm single malt 40%
John Scott Millar 38yo blend (Highland Park and Invergordon)
52% Jura Prophecy year 1 ‘”profoundly peated” 46%
Karuizawa 1972 – 2008 65% 529 bottles
67% Kilchoman Inaugural release 46%
58% Kilchoman autumn 2009 release 46%
29% Kilkerran work in process batch 2 46%
46% Kilkerran (2009 release) 46%
35% King of Scots 25yo blend 40%
53% Kornog Taouarc’h Eilvet 09 peated French single malt 3yo 46%
63% (Ladyburn) Rare Ayrshire 21/2/1975 – 2/3/9 34yo 45.2% Bourbon barrel 166 bottles Signatory
77% Lagavulin 18.10.95 – 2009 54.4% European oak bottled for Feis ILe 2009
82% Lagavulin 12yo
73% Lagavulin 12yo cask strength 2009 release
Laos : ‘whisky’
50% Laphroaig S.M.W.S. 29.82 10yo refill Bourbon hogshead 56.5% 297 bottles
59% Laphroaig Cairdeas (11yo to 19yo) 2010 Feis Ile 57.3%
85% Laphroaig 1998-09/2009 11yo 61.3% Bourbon hogshead 248 bottles Cadenheads
69% Laphroaig Cairdeas55% Macallan The Golden Cask 1992 – 2005 291 bottles 56.8%
50% (Laphroaig) SMWS 29.82 297 bottles 10yo 56.5% refill Bourbon hogshead
38% Lark single malt Tasmanian 43%
56% Linkwood-Glenlivet 1989 – 02/10 20yo 55.4% port cask 256 bottles Cadenheads
45% Littlemill 1991 – 10/09 18yo Bourbon barrel 240 bottles 58.5% Cadenheads
75% Longrow 08.01 – 20.05.10 8yo 58.5% 414 bottles shiraz hogshead
76% Longrow 7yo 55.8% (1 1/2 years in Gaja Barolo red wine casks)
65% Longrow Tasting Room 45.9%
29% Lot No.40 Canadian 43%
53% Macallan Scott’s Selection 1985 – 2006 53.0%
69% Macallan S.M.W.S. 24.104 18yo 1st fill sherry butt 612 bottles 56.9%
92% Macallan 1958 80 degrees proof (45.7%) 26 2/3 fluid ounces
76% Macallan official cask strength bottling 58.5% (now discontinued)
74% Macallan 1987 – 10/08 20yo sherry butt 282 bottles 53.2% Cadenheads
45% Macduff 1989 – 05.05 16yo 59.8% butt 678 bottles Cadenheads
59% McLeod’s single Islay malt 8yo
68%/74% Millburn 31yo 1974 – 05/06 52.3% Bourbon hogshead 246 bottles Cadenheads
28% Millstone 05.00 – 24.02.09 8yo Dutch single Malt 40% from Zuidam distillery French oak
39% Miltonduff 10yo 40% Gordon & MacPhail
42% Mitchells Blend 40%
32% Mitchells Blend 40%
52% Mortlach 21yo 46% Duthies
59% Mortlach 1994 55.1% Golden Cask
52% Mortlach 5.8.91-10.3.9 17yo sherry butt 46% Signatory
76% Mortlach Flora & Fauna 16yo 43%
91% Mortlach 1954-2008 40% Gordon & MacPhail
86% 1937-1987 50yo single Speyside malt (Macallan?) 50yo Gordon & MacPhail
75% ‘No.3 Bond’- vatted Campbeltown malt, NAS, 55.8%, Wm. Cadenhead
48%/80%/ ‘No.3 Bond’, Vatted Islay malt, bottled in shop May 2008, NAS, 56.6% abv, Wm. Cadenhead
75% Octomore 2 62.5% 140 ppm 5yo 15000 bottles
PC5 6038 bottles 2001 – 2006, 5yo 63.5% mix of bourbon and sherry casks
PC6 18000 bottles 2001 – 2007, 6yo 61.6% “Madeira cask influence”
PC7 24000 bottles 2001 – 2008 7yo 61%
PC8 25650 bottles 2001 – 2009 8yo 60.5%
71% PC8 60.5% 40ppm
60% Peat Monster
19% Penderyn Welsh single malt 43% “lightly peated’
33% Pride of Islay malt 12yo 40% Gordon & MacPhail
46% Port Ellen September 1982 – September 2009 refill sherry casks 43% Gordon & MacPhail
88% Port Ellen Golden Cask
Port Sgioba (Gaelic for Port Charlotte) 286 bottles 6.12.01 – 2.3.10 8yo cask no. 826/2001 66.0% refill sherry hogshead specially selected by FOAH
Pulteney 1990 -2009 18yo 57.2% 217 bottles Cadenheads
51% Pulteney 1990 – 02.06.2010 19yo 57.4% Bourbon cask
75% Rosebank 1989-6/09 20yo Bourbon hogshead 269 bottles 52.1% Cadenheads
70% Royal Brackla 1976 – 11/6 30yo 53.6% Sherry hogshead 126 bottles Cadenheads
54% Royal Brackla 1976 – 11/6 30yo 53.6% Sherry hogshead 126 bottles Cadenheads
34% ‘Royal Stewart’ 12yo 40% (bottled 1980s)
82% Royal Brackla 1992-06/09 16yo Bourbon barrel 183 bottles 54.7% Cadenheads
68% Royal Brackla 30yo 1976 – 11/06 53.6% Sherry hogshead 126 bottles Cadenheads
Saint George’s single malt 1st fill Bourbon 25.10 – 27.8.9 46%
27% Sheep Dip Old Hebridean 1990 40% Ardbeg+Dalmore+Fettercairn
64% Signatory single Islay malt 5yo
37% ‘Six Isles’ blended malt (Islay, Jura, Skye, Mull, Orkney and Arran) 43%
47% Small Concern 10yo 57.9% Tasmania Cadenheads
43% Smokehead 18yo Islay single malt
38% ‘Smokehead’ single malt 43%
20% Snow Grouse 40%
60% Speyburn 09/77 – 12/07 43% refill sherry butt Gordon & MacPhail
74% Springbank 10yo ‘100 proof’ 57%
72% Springbank 06/97 – 01/09 11yo Madiera wood 55.1% 2090 bottles
43% Springbank 12.89 – 11.05 15yo 275 bottles 52% Glenkeir Treasures
56% Springbank (27.72) SMWS 05.96 12yo refill hogshead 292 bottles
70% Springbank 26.11.93 – 16.03.07 13yo refill sherry cask 563 bottles 58.7% Speciality Drinks Ltd.
54% Springbank 1991 – 2003 58.5% Lombard
Springbank 18yo (2009 release) 46%
55% Springbank 2001 – 02/10 8yo 58.5% cognac cask 625 bottles Cadenheads
59% Springbank CV 46%
62% Springbank 12yo cask strength 54.6%
78% Springbank 12yo Claret wood expression 54.4%
57% Springbank 12yo Claret wood expression 54.4%
65% Springbank 18yo 46%
Springbank private bottling 1996-2009 13yo fresh sherry hogshead 56%
Spinnaker single cask German single malt 50.1%
53% Stranahan’s single malt batch No.34 47%
39% Super Nikka 43% Japanese blend
29% The English Whisky Co. Chapter 2 29.7.8-15.9.8 new spirit 46% 50ppm
28% The English Whisky Company Chapter 6 batch 2 3yo 1st fill Bourbon casks 46%
34% The Ileach single malt 40%
53% ‘The Ileach’ 12yo single malt 43%
32% ‘The Peat Chimney’ Wemyss Vintage Malts blended malt 43%
30% ‘The Pibroch’ 12yo single Islay malt 43%
62% The Whisky Exchange 25yo blend 40%
67% Tomatin 1994 – 07/10 16yo sherry cask 277 bottles 53.6% Cadenheads
56% Tomintoul 10yo 40%
28% malted oat 42%
51% Warengheim French blend 40%
42% ‘Wholly Smoke’ blended malt 10yo
70% Whyte & Mackay 25yo
42% Woodford Resrve weet mash Bourbon 43.2%
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