Reviews
| Name | Type | BUY, Neutral, NO | Price / price range* (750ml) | ABV | Taste | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Balvenie, Single Barrel Sherry Cask, 15 year old | Single Malt Scotch Whisky | BUY | 57 | 0.478 | vanilla coats, good feeling all the way down | good |
| 2 | Dalwhinnie Winter's Gold | Single Malt Scotch Whisky | BUY | $44 USD in UK | 0.43 | wood, then sweet, followed by wood then sweet again | very good |
| 3 | Glen Scotia, Double Cask | Single Malt Scotch Whisky | BUY | 46 | 0.46 | pepper on tongue | |
| 4 | Glenfiddich, 18 year old | Single Malt Scotch Whisky | BUY | 119 | 0.4 | smooth honey | very good |
| 5 | Isle of Jura, Superstition | Single Malt Scotch Whisky | BUY | 60 | 0.43 | burn and fade | good |
| 6 | Monkey Shoulder | Blended Malt Scotch Whisky | BUY | 0.4 | burn with fast fade | good | |
| 7 | Auchentoshan, Three Wood | Single Malt Scotch Whisky | BUY | $70-$80 | 0.43 | Strong, long, good | |
| 8 | The Girvan Patent Still, single grain 25 year old, Launch edition | Single Grain Scotch whiskey | BUY $$ | 400 | 0.42 | smooth, tingles on the tongue, long finish | buy when you have too much money |
| 9 | Girven 50 year old 1965 (cask 10896), Xtra Old Particular (Douglas Lasing) | Single Grain Scotch whiskey | BUY $$$$ | 900 | 0.437 | Excellent but pricey | |
| 10 | Compass Box, Great King Street Artist's Blend | Blended Scotch Whiskey | BUY + | 45 | 0.4 | smooth, honey coats the tongue | Best of the first 20 |
| 11 | George T. Stags, Stagg Jr | Kentucky Straight Bourbon | BUY + | $52-$60 | 0.661 | Whiskey taste! Burns, slow fade that leaves mouth smooth and numb | Very good |
| 12 | Glenfiddich 18 year old | Single Malt Scotch Whisky | BUY + | 119 | 0.4 | good, complex, honey | wife likes |
| 13 | The GlenDronsch, 12 year old | Single Malt Scotch Whisky | BUY + | $70 - $80 | 0.43 | Good, smooth, heat spreads, fades, sherry finish | |
| 14 | Balvenie, 12 year old, Doublewood | Single Malt Scotch Whisky | BUY ++ | $46 - $55 | 0.43 | Long soft whiskey burn followed by vanilla taste that fades away | Excellent! |
| 15 | Mackmyra Swedish Single Malt Whisky | Swedish Single Malt Whiskey | BUY, very good | $50-$60 USD in Europe, cant find in US | 0.461 | Complex - tingle followed by slight peat, then warm stomach, then slight peat | |
| 16 | MaCallan Rare Cask | Single Malt Scotch Whisky | neutral | 300 | 0.43 | Pepper, then honey peeper | just okay |
| 17 | The Dalmore, 15 year old | Single Malt Scotch Whisky | neutral | $75 to $120 | 0.4 | harsh then smooth, then vanilla followed by honey | just okay |
| 18 | Caol Iia, 12 year old | Single Malt Scotch Whisky | NO | $60 - $80 | 0.43 | Nasty | |
| 19 | Elijah Craig, Small Batch Bourbon, 12 year old | Bourbon Whiskey | NO | none | 0.47 | taste like Listerine (ran out of 12yr) | |
| 20 | Glengoyne, 21 year old | Single Malt Scotch Whisky | NO | 118 | 0.43 | long smooth honey finish | good but not great |
| 21 | Isle of Jure, Elixir, 12 year old | Single Malt Scotch Whisky | NO | $40-$60 | 0.4 | just okay | |
| 22 | Kilchoman Machir Bay 2014 release | Single Malt Scotch Whisky | NO | $55-$65 | 0.46 | medicine taste | |
| 23 | Miymgikyo | Japanese Single Malt Whiskey | NO | $75-$130 | 0.43 | slow burn, fast fade, slight medicine taste | |
| 24 | Mortlach, 18 year old | Single Malt Scotch Whisky | NO | $270-$360 | 0.434 | Peat, then mint, then peat with a fast fade. Initial burn in the stomach then a fast fade | |
| 25 | Msckmyra Brukawhisky | Swedish Single Malt Whiskey | NO | $46-$55 in Europe | 0.414 | ok but not special | |
| 26 | North British, 28 year old 1988 (cask 34443), Carn Mor Celebration of the Cask | Single Grain Scotch whiskey | NO | ~$100 | 0.599 | just ok | |
| 27 | Old Particular, Caol Ila 15 year old, 1996 (cask 11208) | Single Malt Scotch Whisky | NO | ~$380 | 0.507 | tingle, sweet, tingle, slight medicine taste | ok but no buy |
| 28 | Teeling Small Batch Irish Whiskey | Blended Whiskey | NO | 37 | 0.46 | Burning, mid chest | |
| 29 | The Balvenie, Doublewood, 17 years old | Single Malt Scotch Whisky | NO | $130-$160 | 0.43 | woody with fast fade | |
| 30 | The Dalmore, Cigar Malt Reserve | Single Malt Scotch Whisky | NO | 150 | 0.44 | Stings, fades fast, no after taste | |
| 31 | The Lost Distilleries, Blend Batch 8 | Blended Scotch Whiskey | NO | no available | 0.531 | medicine taste that fades | |
| 32 | Big Peat at Christmas 2016 | Blended Malt Scotch Whisky | NO, NO, No | 65 | 0.546 | Smokey PEAT, followed by peppermint, followed by peat, peat, peat, forever peat | This cured my dog of whiskey cravings. Seriously. When I drink whiskey, the dog always wants a taste from my finger. A lick of Big Peat cured her. One year later and still no interest in whiskey. Doesn’t work on people though. Had a bottle that taste like this when visiting Jay, we couldn't drink it. Jay knew a woman he was seeing had a serious problem when she drank 3/4ths of the bottle while waiting for him. |
| 33 | Kilchoman, 5 year old 2010 (cask 566/10) , single octave cask release | Single Malt Scotch Whisky | THUMPER, Yes | ~$100 | 0.58 | THUMPER, strong, Smokey peat, smoke fades slowly and sweetly | When I drink this, I automatically pound by foot on the floor, repeatedly. My wife was not home when I tried this whiskey. When she got home, I poured her some, she tasted it and immediately started banging her hand on the table, repeatedly. Clearly THUMPER is a good summary of the taste. We drank it all. |
| 34 | Glenfarclas 2009 (bottled 2016) (cask 1805) | Single Malt Scotch Whisky | unobtainable | NA | 0.599 | Excellent, complex, lots of changes on the tongue | |
| 35 | The Lost Distilleries Blend, Batch 7 | Blended Scotch Whisky | No | ~$630 | 0.495 | strong, back of throat , long finish some wood taste | |
| 36 | Evan Williams Bourbon, Single Barrell 2004 (bottled 2014) | Kentucky Straight Bourbon | No | 32 | 0.433 | just ok | |
| 37 | The Blended Whiskey Company, The Half-Century Blend Batch 1 aged over 50 years | Blended Scotch Whisky | neutral | ~$653 | 0.455 | smooth, slow to stomach burn, slight wood, long mild fade | |
| 38 | Lagavulin, 1999, bottled 2015 Pedro Ximenez Cask Finish Distillers edition | Single Malt Scotch Whisky | neutral | 129 | 0.43 | wood, tannin -harsh then less so. tried 5x to see if liked - realized 5x try means no | |
| 39 | Johnny Walker Blue | Blended Scotch | yes | 240 | 0.4 | smooth | Gifted this to my wife. She was saving it for special occasions. After several months only a few shots had been measured out. I explained that, once a bottle is opened, the whiskey starts to oxidize. A half open bottle can last a year, a quarter bottle 3 months -- so we might as well drink it; which we did over the next several weeks. True enough, I could have thought to transfer the contents to smaller containers, reduced the oxidation and significantly increased the lifespan of the contents....but what fun would that be? |