Dufftown Glenlivet 8 Year Old Bottled 1960s

Singleton of Dufftown 12 Year Old

Think of chewing a handful of pencil shavings with marshmallow. That's what it tastes like. I was unlucky to buy a bottle of this stuff and tried really hard to get my money's worth. No joy. Having tried a few dozen whiskeys so far, I thought I could drink anything. This one is positively undrinkable though. The first impression is good: the...

Score 30/100

Singleton of Dufftown 12 Year Old

Nose: quite full with lots of fresh oak and nutty malt accents. Seems they did a good job maturing the stuff, as the aroma displays the sort of richness you only get from combining different cask types. I liked it right off the bat. Taste: initially sweet with the orchard fruit flavours typical of a Speyside malt. Dries pretty quickly, though,...

Score 79/100

Singleton of Dufftown 12 Year Old

There are very few whiskies that I actively dislike. Certainly I prefer some to others, and I'm indifferent to many, but I seldom take an active dislike to a bottling. It seems to me that most whisky made these days is pretty well executed technically and, while many fall short of greatness, minimum standards are usually met. What I find curious...

Score 69/100

Dufftown 37 Year Old 1978 Single Cask

Cadenhead enjoys the privilege of actually putting the suffix ‘Glenlivet’ to many of their releases. That has nothing to do with that specific distillery, but with the region whence it came. This is an older release from Dufftown, distilled in 1978 and bottled a few years ago in their so-called Single Cask Series. Nowhere to be found nowadays and...

Score 90/100