Linkwood 20 Year Old 1990 Rare Auld Duncan Taylor

Linkwood 7 Year Old 2008 Signatory for De Cluysenaer

Linkwood is a Speyside distillery, founded in 1821. She is a stone’s throw away from BenRiach and Longmorn. In 1840, when she was run by James Walker, she had a capacity of 90.000 liters. By 1900 that had increased to 227.000 liters. Today she is owned by Diageo and supplies whisky for famous blends such as White Horse, Haig, Bells and Dimple. It...

Score 80/100

Linkwood 11 Year Old 2007 James Eadie

James Eadie is a young independent bottler – started in 2016 – run by Rupert Patrick who started his career in the wine business in 1988, but made the transition to whisky. He worked for MacLeod Distillers, Beam-Suntory and Diageo before going it alone. The name of the label is easily explained: James Eadie was his great-great-grandfather...

Score 86/100

Linkwood 12 Year Old 2009 Whisky Club of Luxembourg Berry Bros & Rudd

Berry Brothers & Rudd is of course very well known, so no intro needed. For years, the royal supplier with headquarters in London, they of course also bottle whisky themselves. This young Linkwood was bottled especially for the Whisky Club from Luxembourg. The hogshead yielded 324 cask strength bottles. I got a sample pressed into the hands by...

Score 86/100

Linkwood 26 Year Old Bladnoch Forum

The bourbon hogshead 1625 was filled on 15th March 1984 and exactly 26 years later – on 15th March 2010 – was bottled for the Bladnoch Forum members. This Linkwood is at a respectable age of 26 years and the cask yielded 264 bottles. Again the typical floral charachter of Linkwood shines through on the nose – primarily violets – but this is...

Score 88/100