Banff 1975 36 Year Old Old Rare Douglas Laing Platinum Selection

Banff 38yo 1975/2013 Malts of Scotland

Banff one of those distilleries almost entirely scrapped from the Speyside annals, widely loved by those who got a taste, but so much more obscure than many other of her lost contemporaries. To put it simply: popular like a Port Ellen, beclouded like a Glenesk. Now that nature is slowly reclaiming the last few standing walls on site, it might be...

Score 91/100

Banff 21 Year Old 1978 Chieftain’s

Banff is one of the distilleries that did not survive the big closing round in 1983, executed by Diageo. So this is not a whisky that you encounter often. So far, I have only tried two myself; a 37 Year Old 1971 from the Dead Whisky Society and a 32 Year Old 1975 from Douglas Laing. Hence I am very curious about this much younger and very pale...

Score 80/100

Banff 22 Year Old 1974 Connoisseurs Choice

Oh, look now, my 10th Banff. This Speyside distillery closed its doors in 1983 and has since been demolished. There's only one official bottling, the 21-year-old from 1982 in the Rare Malts Selection, bottled in 2004 (which I tasted in 2017). What I'm tasting today is a 22-year-old from 1974 that was bottled in 1997. So it has been in the bottle...

Score 87/100

Banff 1975 32 Year Old

Nose: aromatic start with lemon, apples and pears. Slightly syrupy with a hint of vanilla. Hints of buttercups. Then it starts to evolve on wet limestone and gravel that I find pretty typical for Banff, maybe even some coal. Whiffs of oak mixed with coastal notes. An old-style Highland whisky. Not the most complex Banff ever, but very satisfying –...

Score 87/100