Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Tasting 19 - November 2011

Malts Tasted:

The Glenlivet 18 Average 8.51
Mortlach 14 - 1995/2010 (Chieftains) Avge 8.46
Glenfarclas 15 Average 8.79
The Glenlivet 12 (blind) Avge 7.95

Full report available here

Monday, November 7, 2011

Tasting 18 - September 2011

Malts Tasted:

Glenmorangie 'Original' 10 Avge 7.45
Glenmorangie Nectar d'Or Sauterne 12 Avge 8.41
Caol Ila 13 Sauterne (Chieftains) Avge 7.46
Ardmore (blind) Average 7.75

Full report available here

Friday, August 19, 2011

Tasting 17 - July 2011

Malts Tasted:

Four Roses Bourbon 5 Year Old Average 5.75
Smith's Angaston 8 Year Old Average 6.8
Smith's Angaston 10 Year Old 53.2% Average 7.34
Bowmore 12 (blind) Average 7.35

Full report available here

Sunday, May 29, 2011

Tasting 16 - May 2011

Malts Tasted:

Bushmills 10 Average 7.47
Ardmore Average 7.88
Bruichladdich 18 Average 7.8
Highland Park 12 (blind) Avge 7.77

Full report available here

Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Tasting 15 - February 2011

Malts Tasted:

Bowmore 8 (Alchemist 1998/2007) Avge 6.44
Bowmore 12 Average 7.47
Bowmore 18 Average 7.97
Glenfarclas 15 (blind) Average 8.06

Full report available here

Monday, February 14, 2011

Tasting 14 - December 2010

Malts Tasted:

Dalmore 12 (Old Bottling – tall round bottle) ave 7.5
Dalmore 12 (Current Bottling) – average score 7.5
Dalmore 11 Adelphi 1989/2000 Cask 998 57.2% - ave 7.86
Imperial 9 - Duncan Taylor ‘Battlehill’ (blind) – ave 7.27

Full tasting report available here

Monday, November 8, 2010

Tasting 13 - October 2010

Malts Tasted:

Oban 14 - average score 7.62
Clynelish 14 - average score 7.63
Bowmore 12 - average score 7.47
The Glenlivet 12 (blind) - average score 7.7

Full tasting report available here

Sunday, August 22, 2010

Tasting 12 – August 2010

Malts Tasted:

Knappogue Castle 12 (Irish) - average score 6.48
Penderyn (Peated) (Welsh) - average score 6.77
Macallan 10 - average score 7.32
Glenmorangie 10 (blind) - average score 7.75

Full tasting report available here

Friday, June 11, 2010

Tasting 11 - June 2010

Malts tasted:

Talisker 10 - average score 6.75
Lagavulin 16 - average score 7.9
Lagavulin 16 DE Pedro Ximenez Cask - average score 8.3
Ledaig NV (blind) - average score 6

Full report available here

Sunday, May 30, 2010

Tasting 10 - April 2010

Malts Tasted:

Imperial 9 'Battlehill' by Duncan Taylor - average score of 5.8
Highland Park 10 - Provenance bottling - average score of 6.5
Glenfarclas 15 - average score of 7.7
Highland Park 12 (blind) - average score of 7.8

Full Tasting Report available here


Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Tasting 9 - February 2010

Malts Tasted:
Tullibardine 15 1993/2008 - average score of 6.19
Tullibardine 15 1993/2008 Sherry Casks - average score of 6.7
Springbank 10 Vintage 1997/2007 Batch 1 - average score of 7.35
Old Pulteney 12 (blind) - average score of 7.11

Full Tasting Report available here.

Friday, February 5, 2010

Tasting 8 - November 2009

Malts Tasted:
Sheep Dip - average score 6.78
Macallan 10 - average score 7.96
Highland Park 12 - average score 8.12
Ardbeg 10 (blind) - average score 6.94

Full Tasting Report available here.

Tasting 7 - July 2009

Malts Tasted:
Cooley 16 Single Grain Whiskey - Milroy's of Soho Bottling - average score 6.8
Smiths Angaston 8 (Australian) - average score 6.81
Glenmorangie 10 - average score 7.2
Glenfarclas 20 - Earls of Zetland Club Bottling - average score 7.07

Full Tasting Report available here.

Tasting 6 - October 2008

Malts Tasted:
Ledaig - Peated with Sherry Finish - average score 6.29
Scapa 12 - average score 7.14
Bowmore 10 - Hart Brothers Bottling - average score 7.47
Laphroaig 10 - average score 7.79

Full Tasting Report available here.

Tasting 5 - July 2008

Malts Tasted:
The Glenlivet 12 - average score 7.07
The Glenlivet 15 - French Oak Reserve - average sore 7.56
Laphroaig 8 'Provenance' Bottling - average score 6.96
Highland Park 18 - average score 8.6

Full Tasting Report Available here.

Tasting 4 - April 2008

Malts Tasted:
Glengoyne 21 - average score 7.85
Isle of Jura 'Superstition' - average score 5.98
Longrow 10 - average score 7.36
Glenfarclas 15 (blind) - average score 7.26

Full Tasting Report available here.

Thursday, February 4, 2010

Tasting 3 - February 2008

Malts Tasted:
Old Pulteney 12 - average score 6.98
Bowmore 13 - Provenance Bottling - average score 7.7
Springbank Marsala Wood 9 O/P - average score 7.6
Arran (as a blind malt) - average score 7.78

Full Tasting Report available here.

Tasting 2 - October 2007

Malts tasted:
Bruichladdich 15 - average score 6.8
Glenfarclas 21 - average score 7.45
Laphroaig 10 - average score 6
Glenfarclas 105 O/P - average score 6.49

Full Tasting Report available here.

Tasting 1 - September 2007

The first Club Tasting:
Arran First 1995 - average score 6.9
Highland Park 10 - Provenance Bottling - average score 7.3
Glenfarclas 15 - average score 8.03
Ardbeg 10 - average score 8.06

Full Tasting Report available here.

Here is a glass of a light malt in one of the Earls of Zetland Malt Tasting Club glasses. Yum.