Glen Scotia 1999 Cask #518 Peated

Glen Scotia 13 Year Old 2005 Single Cask Selection #17/413-2

I am happy to put two sister cask from Glen Scotia head-to-head: cask #17/413-2 against cask #17/413-8, both put to sleep in 2005 and both bottled in 2019. The first is a Tawny Port Hogshead that yielded 299 bottles, the second an oloroso sherry cask that yielded 328 bottles. Both were bottled at cask strength. Let’s start with the port cask. Oh,...

Score 87/100

Glen Scotia 20 Year Old 1992 Thosop

Lately, quite a few Glen Scotia from 1992 have been released, I feel. They are somewhat hit & miss if you ask me, but I have to admit, I am not very fond of Glen Scotia. I can only remember a few good ones. This Glen Scotia (which is Gaelic for valley of Scotland) matured on a refill sherry hogshead and was bottled by Thosop, reknowned for the...

Score 85/100

Glen Scotia 1992 GM bottled 2009

I have a considerable backlog of malts from the Single Malt Whisky Club (Australia) who essentially would send me (and bill me for!) a different bottle every month, usually something that you can’t just walk into a bottle shop and pick up. This is one of those, a Glen Scotia 1992 vintage by Gordon & MacPhail bottled 2009. Opened 2012-02-19,...

Score 81/100

Glen Scotia 19 Year Old A.D. Rattray

According to legend, Duncan MacCallum’s spirit still haunts this Campbeltown Distillery. But that the distillery, currently property of Loch Lomond Company, is up for sale since 1999 is fact. That the crew of neighbouring Springbank keeps it running three months a year is confirmed by one, vehemently denied by the other. Whatever the case, we are...

Score 79/100