Coleburn 1981 Connoisseurs Choice Gordon & Macphail

Coleburn 1979 21 Year Old

Pretty funny to read opinions on this Coleburn 1979 in the Rare Malts series. Everyone seems to think it’s not particularly good, but still most say it’s the best Coleburn ever bottled… Coleburn distillery went down in the 1980’s like so many of its neighbours. Coleburn 21 yo 1979 (59,4%, Rare Malts 2000) Nose: floral and zesty with waxy...

Score 87/100

Coleburn 17yo (1965/1982) Gordon&MacPhail

Coleburn: beautiful building, interesting name, obscure product. Just the dram I was looking for… Description: not much is known about this one. distilled in 1965 back at the Speyside Coleburn Distillery and matured in an unknown cask. Bottled 17 years later by Gordon & MacPhail for their old brown label Connoisseurs Choice. Nose: old and...

Score 82/100

Coleburn 14 Year Old 1983 Signatory

Coleburn is only a stone’s throw away from Longmorn and BenRiach, so in the heart of Speyside not to far from the town of Elgin. It has been closed since 1985. There are no official bottlings (bar a Rare Malts by Diageo in 2000). The 14 Year Old that I will try was bottled by Signatory in 1997. Previously I had only tried one Coleburn so far, also...

Score 73/100

Coleburn 19 Year Old 1981 Signatory Un-Chillfiltered

Coleburn has been closed since 1985, so this drop is liquid history. The distillery was located very near BenRiach and Longmorn, so this is the heart of Speyside. The name supposedly comes from charcoal burn. I am trying a bottling by Signatory in their Un-Chillfiltered series. It was distilled on 22 October 1981 (I had yet to turn 12!) and...

Score 84/100