Glen Scotia 1974 30 Year Old Ian Macleod

Glen Scotia 10 Year Old 2008 Single Cask Selection #465

A single cask Glen Scotia – first fill bourbon barrel 465 – that was released as ‘Spring 2019’. Let’s get to work! The nose is a veritable liquid candy! Unrefined sugar. Vanilla like there’s not tomorrow, but also quite a bit of lime and apricots. Remember those apricot flavored Superman logos? Then a fresh bouquet of flowers and molded wood. Not...

Score 85/100

Glen Scotia 11 Year Old 2007 Single Cask Selection Winter 2018

A young Glen Scotia that matured on a whisky cask? That sounds interesting. Distilled in 2007 and after 11 years on a Bordeaux cask it still yielded 292 bottles. This is an official release in their so-called Single Cask Selection. The nose is pretty dirty on loads of peat that wrap a smoky jacket around all kinds of red fruit. Think strawberry,...

Score 87/100

Glen Scotia Wilson & Morgan 1991 20 Year Old

I bet you forgot that there's another distillery in Campbeltown besides Springbank! That would be Glen Scotia, founded in the 1830s by the Galbraith family, who owned the distillery for the rest of the 1800s. It is now owned by Loch Lomond distillery. It is easy to ignore Glen Scotia, given the stature of neighbouring Springbank and the sporadic...

Score 84/100

Glen Scotia Victoriana

There's quite a convoluted method to the cask make up of these but, to sum up - selected ex bourbon casks are filled into heavy charred American oak and 30% px for a year or so, with a final marrying period of a couple of months. Reviews are generally good and I'm sure it won an OSWA. Bottle has been open a couple of months with just over half...

Score 84/100