Auchroisk 1975 35 Year Old Old Malt Cask #6703 Douglas Laing

Auchroisk The Singleton 1975

The Singleton is among the best selling brands for Diageo, but it’s an umbrella brand. Depending on where you live in the world, you’ll get a different malt. Today there is a Singleton of Dufftown (Europa), Singleton of Glendullan (USA) and Singleton of Glen Ord (Asia). Many moons ago there was also a Singleton of Auchroisk, but that is now...

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 16 Year Old 1996 Asta Morris

I tried this Auchroisk, selected by Bert Bruyneel, for the first time during our annual whisky dinner and after that poured it myself a tasting I hosted, but so far I have not made any notes. Time to rectify the situation. This is a bottling from Asta Morris. The nose is malty with wilde flowers, freshly cut grass, honey and loads of wood. Sugared...

Score 85/100

Auchroisk The Singleton of Auchroisk (distilled 1976)

When the Dories Well was discovered in the Speyside region, some genius said, "Hey, we should build a distillery here." Good idea. IDV bought the site in 1970 and built the distillery here in 1974. Starting in 1978, pretty much all of it went into J&B. Their first bottled single malt to go on sale is the one we're tasting today, The...

Score 91/100