Inchgower 1968 36 Year Old Duncan Taylor

Inchgower 17 Year Old 1959 Cadenhead Dumpy

No, it's not a typo. This Inchgower was indeed distilled in 1959 and bottled after 17 years. That was in 1977, an important year for Star Wars fans, but this aside. In the meantime, the malt has been in the bottle for two and a half times as long as it has been in the cask. Liquid history? You bet. Ah, that's a real old school nose. Metallic,...

Score 89/100

Inchgower 28 Year Old 1982 Bladnoch Forum cask 6966

This Inchgower, also bottled by Bladnoch Forum, was bottled on 5thAugustu 2010, a week later than cask #6965. This cask #6966 is bottled at a slightly higher ABV. Surely they must be almost identical, no? Yep, it is an identical twin on the nose. Gras, flowers, hay, potpourri, they all return, albeit in somewhat different amounts. This one seems a...

Score 85/100

Inchgower 30 Year Old 1982 'Pears and Almonds' Wemyss

You are totally forgiven for not having heard of Inchgower before. This distillery, owned by Diageo, produces for the blenders only. As a single malt, it only appeared in the Rare Malts and Flora & Fauna series. The bulk goes into Bell’s, White Horse and Johnnie Walker. That explains why this is only the 5th Inchgower to ever cross my lips....

Score 83/100

Inchgower 35 yo (1975/2011)

Another one from the Diageo stall, an important ingredient of both Johnnie Walker and Bell's blends, but still fairly obscure as a single malt. Today I'm trying a festival bottling from the well known German whisky festival in Limburg: The Whisky Fair. This 35yo was the festival bottling of 2011 and matured in a bourbon hogshead. Nose: Three...

Score 86/100