601

Aberlour 10yrs
Speyside, distillery bottling
Nutty, with nutmeg and a hint of cinnamon.  Although peated it is very brandy-like and warming. Not overly challenging but quite satisfying, particularly with dessert.

40%

£5.40

747

Aberlour 15yrs Sherry Cask
Speyside, distillery bottling
Complex and sophisticated – a perfect balance of sherry and the malty, spicy, house character.  The two elements are tightly combined, with the spicy flavours emerging slowly: nutmeg, aniseed and emphatic orange-flower.  Long, soothing, with a minty and spicy finish.

40%

£7.20

602

Ardbeg 10yrs
Islay, distillery bottling
The nose is amazingly smoky with a whiff of tar-covered rope.  The palate is robust with more peat smoke and the flavours of turf and lapsang souchong.  A long finish with a fragrant peaty reek.  Whilst flavour-packed this is still a delicate scotch.

46%

£6.90

729

Balblair 10yrs
Northern Highlands, bottled by Gordon & MacPhail
Light bodied and golden with a slightly medicinal nose.

40%

£6.40

604

Balmenach 12yrs
Speyside, distillery bottling
A complicated, full-bodied malt, best suited as an after-dinner dram.

43%

£8.60

605

Balvenie 10yrs
Speyside, distillery bottling
Wonderful bouquet of honey and mint and a hint of old raisins.  Sweet and smooth, it flows gently through your mouth.  An excellent soft malt – one of the most highly regarded by the experts.

40%

£6.70

611

Balvenie 15yrs
Speyside, distillery bottling

47.8%

£9.90

750

Benromach 15yrs
Speyside, bottled by Gordon & MacPhail
Closed in 1983, this distillery reopened in 1998.  Fruity-stewed apples and cinnamon with evidence of sherry ageing on the nose.  It is mellow and fruity with cedar wood notes and bitter dark chocolate finish.

40%

£8.60

610

Bladnoch 10yrs
Lowlands, distillery bottling
Light to medium bodied with a fragrant, lemony aroma and a gentle, unassertive flavour with fruity tones.

43%

£9.30

739

Bowmore Darkest
Islay, distillery bottling
The sherry aroma is fantastic, together with almonds and mature oak.  The peaty notes become an excellent foil to the fruity flavours and do not allow the sherry to totally dominate.  Hints of the sea drift in given a little time in the glass.  Soft over ripe dark grapes flood the palate like an incoming tide.  It’s rich, but not over the top, due to the wonderful heather fire smoky flavour you will find on the back palate.  A warm chocolate sweetness runs throughout.

43%

£9.70

775

Bowmore Dusk Bordeaux Finish
Islay, distillery bottling
Apricots, honeydew melon and lychee followed by the Claret’s zesty sweetness, then it's salty sea breezes and peat fires with grace notes of lemon zest, marzipan, warm vanilla and candy floss.  A very complex and compelling range of aromas.  Immediately the Claret flavours arrive, just ahead of the peaty, smouldering warmth of the Islays, wave after wave of flavours: dark chocolate, liquorice and black bun.  Hints of peach, tangerine, jaffa cake and Caribbean brown sugar flirt in given time. 

50%

£9.70

776

Bruichladdich 10yr
Islay, distillery bottling
Lots of honeysuckle, myrtle, green apple and soft pear nose with no heavy peat reek to mask its zest.  Simple and succulent with the sweet flavours of home-made fudge, toasted malt and mead. Like a Scottish Reel it is full of action, not too long and takes your breath away.

46%

£8.00

614

Bunnahabhain 12yrs
Islay, distillery bottling
The first impression is of drifting smoke, which passes, to be replaced by clean, fruit-associated scents of nectarines, rum-toft and oil of orange.  Delicate, drying and mouth-cooling, the overall effect is refreshing. This comes from a distinct minty-toffee flavour, with some smoke in the finish.

40%

£6.50

618

Caol Ila 18yrs
Islay, bottled by Gordon & Macphail
(Pronounced cull-eela, gaelic for "Sound of Islay") 

43%

£8.80

621

Clynelish 14yrs
Northern Highlands, distillery bottling
Fruit cake and vanilla creme anglaise with a waft of smoke on the nose and a fruity finish.

43%

£9.30

622

Cragganmore 12yrs
Speyside, distillery bottling
Intensely, nearly overwhelmingly, perfumed, especially with a splash of water.  Very herbal and aromatic, the palate is dry and reminiscent of a very dry white wine.  Exquisitely balanced,   it is great as an aperitif, but complex enough to be enjoyed long after dinner.

40%

£6.60

626

Dalmore 12yrs
Northern Highlands, distillery bottling
Beautiful balance of tempting aromas. Gently fragrant peat-smoke. Orange marmalade, malt and sherry.  Very complex with wonderfully combined flavours.

40%

£6.70

627

Dalwhinnie 15yrs
Northern Highlands, distillery bottling
Strikingly clean flavours with salt and malt in the nose.  A clear Highland malt character with subtle peatiness.  Aromatic and delicately spicy with grass and grain-type vegetative associations.  Refreshing as an aperitif (or after a walk in the hills?).

43%

£7.10

767

Deanston 17yrs
Southern Highlands, distillery bottling
A unique and smooth highland malt, rich and rounded with a touch of amontillado sherry.  A bit sweet – best before dinner.

40%

£8.70

631

Edradour 10yrs
Southern Highlands, distillery bottling
Sherried, butterscotch and vanilla nose. Honeyed and creamy with dried fruits and minty spice on the palate. 

40%

£8.20

632

Glen Garioch 15yrs
Eastern Highlands, distillery bottling
Parma violets and heather on the nose with malty peat on the palate and a peppery finish.

43%

£7.10

726

Glen Grant 10yrs
Speyside, distillery bottling
A malty and sweet nose which notably improves after a little breathing.  Sherry sweetness on the palate this is a pleasant but undemanding whisky.

40%

£5.90

636

Glen Moray 12yrs
Speyside, distillery bottling
A whiff of peat, a hint of leather and straw – the taste is dry with pepper and a sweet spiciness like humbugs.  With water there is more creaminess, followed by a pleasant, dry grapey tang. The finish leaves a dry tang of fruit skins.

40%

£5.90

641

Glendronach 15yrs
Speyside, distillery bottling
100% matured in sherry casks, this has a sweet, heavy, malty nose with a gentle, but powerful, sweet, sherry taste and a long dry finish.  Almost as "phat" as Macallan but sweeter with more wood.

40%

£7.30

642

Glendullan 12yrs
Speyside, distillery bottling
Light, dry, malty nose with a hint of fruit.  The palate starts dry, becoming buttery, malty, nutty and lightly fruity whilst the finish is extraordinarily perfumed and long.

43%

£8.60

644

Glenfarclas 105^o
Speyside, distillery bottling
A very 'loud' and powerful bouquet with red cabbage, toffee and a hint of peppermint after dilution.  Too overpowering at 60% neat – a touch of water is certainly required.

60%

£8.50

645

Glenfarclas 15yrs
Speyside, distillery bottling
Honeyed vanilla, apple pie and custard aromas.  Dry on the palate with nutmeg and dark chocolate strains and a hint of light, oakey, smoke.

46%

£9.10

647

Glenfiddich 12yrs
Speyside, distillery bottling
A fresh nose of dried fruits and vanilla.  The palate is creamy with malt, fruit cake and a touch of peat and honey leading to a biscuity, malty finish.

40%

£5.90

648

Glengoyne 10yrs
Southern Highlands, distillery bottling
Rich malt aroma with hints of oak, apple and sherry, a smooth and delicate palate and fruity finish.

40%

£5.40

649

Glenkinchie 10yrs
Lowlands, distillery bottling
A freshly aromatic nose – spicy and lemon-grassy.  The palate is soft and spicy with cinnamon and ginger. Beautiful balance of sweetness and dryness and dominant malt.

43%

£6.60

650

The Glenlivet 12yrs
Speyside, distillery bottling
Fresh vanilla and caramel aromas mingle with the scent of cooked fruit.  Delicate in texture, a hint of spice, smoke and butterscotch is followed by a subtly spicy finish.

40%

£6.30

784

Smiths Glenlivet 15yrs
Speyside, bottled by Gordon & MacPhail
With a fruity, sweet nose, the 15 year old is medium bodied with quite a smoky palate leading to a spicy, liquorice finish.

40%

£8.00

654

Glenlossie 10yrs
Speyside, distillery bottling
An elegant style of malt with sweet malt’n’walnut aromas which follow on through the taste. Notably smooth. Glenlossie is licensed to the famous Haig firm and is used in most of the Haig blends.

43%

£8.60

653

Glenmorangie – Port Wood
Northern Highlands, distillery bottling
Very soft and smooth body.  The port seems to bring out the toffeeish notes. It also adds sweeter, winey, notes and melds beautifully with the spiceness of Glenmorangie.

43%

£7.10

652

Glenmorangie 10yrs
Northern Highlands, distillery bottling
Walnuts, vanilla, green herbs and some flowery sweetness on the nose with a herbal, salty. palate.  The finish is amazingly long, drying from the initial sweetness but with flaked almonds amid the oakier notes.

40%

£6.60

782

Glenrothes 8yrs
Speyside, bottled by Gordon & Macphail
The first whisky came off the stills in 1879-on the night of the Tay bridge disaster. Golden coloured, the nose is toffied with floral overtones. Medium bodied the palate is smoky and fruity with a hint of sweetness leading to a long and warming finish. 

40%

£6.10

655

Glentauchers 1979
Bottled by Gordon & MacPhail

40%

£8.80

660

Highland Park 12yrs
Orkney, distillery bottling
Fruity sweetness with sherry and coffee beans, accompanied by a hint of peat, on the nose.  The palate is seriously smoky with perfectly balanced sweetness, a pinch of salt and a little peat.

40%

£6.70

661

Inchgower 14yrs
Speyside, distillery bottling
This malt is for the discerning drinker - a complex nose precedes a fruity, spicy palate with a hint of salt.

43%

£8.60

662

Isle of Jura 10yrs
Jura, distillery bottling
An oily, lightly piney, earthily dry nose.  The palate is sweetish with a soft, malty, oilyness and slight island salt.  Very quaffable, it makes a great aperitif.

40%

£6.70

670

Knockando 1987, bottled 1999
Speyside, bottled by Justerini & Brooks
An aromatic, fragrant, flowery, dry nose.  Light to medium bodied with a complex palate of flowers, nuts and a hint of mint near the end.  A long lingering finish with some sweetness and smoky, coffee notes.

40%

£5.90

671

Lagavulin 16yrs
Islay, distillery bottling
Some cognac and cooking chocolate and an interesting scent of clover flowers.  The taste starts sweet and finishes darkly smoky.

43%

£8.60

672

Laphroaig 10yrs
Islay, distillery bottling
Phenolic, seaweedy nose with a hint of esters and melon sweetness.  Continuous gentle waves of dry peat lap upon the tastebuds but are balanced by a sweet malt middle and the most hesitant of vanillas. With its salty, oily palate it is the most medicinal of the Islay malts.

40%

£6.80

673

Laphroaig 15yrs
Islay, distillery bottling
A phenolic, tarry, sulphurous nose carries through to the taste where a deceptive moment of peppermint sweetness and grassiness, then an explosion of sulphur, burning peat and Islay intensity.  Fruitier than the 10yrs it is lively, full of flavours and multi-faceted.

43%

£10.10

674

Ledaig 15yrs
Mull, distillery bottling
An iodine character with a perfumy aroma and peppery flavour along with a peaty finish.

43%

£8.20

675

Linkwood 12yrs
Speyside, distillery bottling
Light, sweet and gently smoky, but also carries a lovely quiet complexity.  There is considerable fruit presence with a spicy-apple tang.  A whisky that is particularly cherished by cognoscenti.

43%

£9.30

681

Macallan 10yrs
Speyside, distillery bottling
Mahogany in colour.  Slightly toffee sweet on the nose with hints of dried fruit, cloves, and sherry.  Smooth and well-rounded dried fruit flavour with a touch of sherry sweetness and wood.

40%

£6.50

682

Macallan 25yrs
Speyside, distillery bottling
A heady sherry sweetness in the nose set against a background of citrus fruits and wood smoke.  The flavour is rich and full, reflecting the additional years of sherry oak ageing.  Full bodied with elegant dried fruits, a lingering oak smoke aroma and silky complexity delivering a full, long lasting finish

43%

£27.30

685

Mannochmore 12yrs
Speyside, distillery bottling

43%

£8.60

689

Millburn 1974, bottled 2000
Northern Highlands, bottled by Gordon & Macphail
Menthol, eucalyptus and cannabis.  Very smooth, sweet and malty at first. After a while, the sweetness vanishes completely to be replaced by perfumed notes.

40%

£13.80

683

Miltonduff 10yrs
Speyside, bottled by Gordon & Macphail

40%

£5.40

695

Oban 14yrs
Western Highlands, distillery bottling
A sturdy malt with chardonnay and peat on the nose.  Salt and caramel make it an ideal seafood aperitif or an accompaniment to oysters.

43%

£7.50

762

Poit dhubh 12yrs
Gaelic, distillery bottling
Medium-bodied nose with firm, dark, smokiness, a touch of liquorice, and a slight rich green touch of citrus.  Quite full-bodied palate, medium sweet and rich with a good backbone of peatiness.  The finish is long, smooth, and smoky.

43%

£6.70

702

Rosebank 12yrs
Lowlands, distillery bottling
This malt was triple distilled - which accounts for its light distinctive nose and well balanced flavour.  The distillery shut down in 1993 – so drink it while you can!

43%

£9.30

705

Royal Lochnagar 12yrs
Eastern Highlands, distillery bottling
Fruitcake and faint burnt currants on the nose.  Cakey, sherryish palate with a malty, grassy, sweetness.  Complex, beautifully rounded and soothing – ideal as a night-cap or after-dinner dram.

40%

£6.50

708

Springbank 10yrs
Campbeltown, distillery bottling
A fragrant, salty nose – you can really smell the sea.  A powerful, intense, palate with clean sweetness, coconut and mint.  Very complex with a toffee and hot peppermint finish and amazing length.

46%

£7.00

712

Talisker 10yrs
Skye, distillery bottling
Peaty, island-style aroma.  A silky, malty palate with a good kick of salt and pepper.  Something of a firework, the primary taste is sweet and salty, with the pepperiness growing and powerful peat-smoke in the, relatively short, finish.

45.8%

£7.00

714

Teaninich 10yrs
Northern Highlands, distillery bottling
Quite sharp and spirity, a valuable contributor to blended whisky, but at this age it is one for the brave!

43%

£8.20

760

Tobermory 10yrs
Mull, distillery bottling
Fresh vanilla laced with malty hints, slightly oily with impressions of mint and candy.

40%

£5.80