Macduff 1973 26 Year Old Douglas Laing Old Malt Cask

Macduff William Lawson's (blend)

This blend is rather popular in France and has been getting more attention in Belgium as well, thanks to the dazzling and witty black/white television commercials of the handsome toughies in kilts. The blend is a concotion of Stephanie McLeod, who is Master Blender at William Lawson. She clearly chooses for a light, fruity blend - no surprise as...

Score 65/100

Macduff 17 Year Old 1973 SMWS 6.9

Macduff, founded in 1962, is one of Scotland’s youngest distilleries. It was built specifically to produced enough malt for the famous blend of Willam Lawson’s. But she also markets her malt as single. For the longest time this was under the label Glen Deveron, but recently that was changed to simply The Deveron, named after the river from which...

Score 86/100

Macduff 1973 bottled 2016

It's my birthday today ... its 9.37am, so naturally I've started my birthday celebrations by starting a Band of Brothers day long marathon and cracking a Drinks by the Dram Macduff. This Malts of Scotland bottling of Macduff single single malt was distilled all the way back in 1973 and allowed to mature in a single Sherry hogshead until 2016....

Score 90/100

Macduff 9 Year Old 2008 Duncan Taylor The Octave

Duncan Taylor has a series called ‘The Octave’, in which the whisky matures (or is finished) in smaller casks. Maturation is faster as there is more contact between the spirit and the wood. Hence the whisky can be bottled sooner, in the case of this Macduff at 9 years old (along with some sister casks). In this case, it was a sherry cask. Dark and...

Score 85/100