Teacher's Royal Highland 12 Year Old Bottled 1980s

Teachers Highland Cream

The reviewed sample is the last 125 ml of a bottle provided thanks to @MarsViolet. Nose: lots of vanilla, very light smoke, a touch of peat, light citrus, well perfumed with carnation and rose. Very pleasant Taste: the delivery starts sweet and peaty, with a nice malt underpinning, and then gathers a lot of citrus. I do taste the wheated...

Score 88/100

Teachers Highland Cream

Teacher's Highland Cream is rather famous blended whisky. It got 90 points by Jim Murray in his Whisky Bible. I don't totally agree with Mr. Murray but I do like Teacher's Highland Cream. Good dram, when comparing it to other blended ones. Has some nice malty tones and doesn't really show the nature of blends until at the very finish. The movie...

Score 79/100

Teachers Highland Cream

Nose, Taste, Finish and Balance are graded out of 2.5 each: Nose: Butterscotch and lemon drizzle cake, bathing gently in a pool of creamy butter, all co-existing in a rich harmony as the grains and malt weave together quite seamlessly. 2.0 Taste: The weave is at once unwoven on the palate, as a medium-bodied oil drives the grains forward, carrying...

Score 75/100

Teachers Highland Cream

Because it's Tax Day in America, I'm taking the cap off a bottle of Teacher's Highland Cream and toasting the legions of unelected bureaucrats in my fair country. This unpretentious dram is medium gold and the body looks thin when twirling the glass. On the nose, there's sweetish mud and peat, as well as a scent like wet turf. A honeyed sweetness...

Score 78/100