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The Auchentoshan 21 Year 1997 bottled by Signatory Vintage exclusively for The Whisky Barrel

February 8, 2019

Tasting notes:To my mind, this is the nicest nose I’ve ever experienced from an Auchentoshan. It’s redolent with figs, paradiddles, rain-fattened raisins, wet [...]

The Auchentoshan American Oak

September 14, 2014

Tasting notes: Resinous lemon wood cut into long, double-barreled flutes for satyrs. A perfume for elven maidens who ride fawns in the deep forest dells. Moldy [...]

The Auchentoshan Virgin Oak

February 22, 2014

Tasting notes: The Auchentoshan Virgin Oak noses oak cakes flecked with daisy petals and the good intentions of your mother as she tries to set you up on a blind date. [...]

The SMWS 5.35

November 3, 2012

[Again, here’s one of many shorter, (largely) linkless reviews we’ve been doing on current Scotch Malt Whisky Society offerings–and applying Lo-Mob effects [...]

The Auchentoshan 10 (50 ml airline bottle)

May 9, 2010

Tasting notes: On the nose, mackerel served on a sherry-soaked cedar plank; on the mouth, the sensation of being locked in a leather valise with shavings from a hamster [...]

The Auchentoshan 18 (50 ml airline bottle)

January 6, 2010

Tasting notes: Nose of unsalted butter crackling in a cast iron skillet balanced on granite rocks over burning pine boughs in the High Sierra. Currants and radishes on [...]

The Auchentoshan 12 (50 ml airline bottle)

December 31, 2009

Tasting notes:Rudyard Kipling’s description of “the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo River” is thought to be inspired by the avocado. If he had tried the [...]

The Auchentoshan Three Wood

December 17, 2009

Tasting notes: The moniker “Three Wood” pleads insistently–but no less annoyingly–for a carefully crafted golf reference (unlike the variant [...]