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The Glen Scotia 18

January 31, 2018

Tasting notes: On the nose, it’s Tim Burton’s candy shop: burnished cotton candy, durian sweets that capture the essence of the fruit before the bad smell erupts, [...]

The Glen Scotia Victoriana

June 21, 2016

Tasting notes: This one is clean and refined, with notes of movie popcorn sprinkled with yeast scraped off of a Finnish sauna owned by a well-heeled family of diplomats. [...]

The Glen Scotia Double Cask

August 22, 2015

Tasting notes: The Glen Scotia Double Cask opens with Sherry Biscuits, infamous moll to notorious gangster Kid Cinnamon Oakuccino. The moll’s packing plastic precursors to [...]

The SMWS 93.61

February 14, 2015

Tasting notes: Imagine what it’d be like if, in polite company, a Sherry butt…well…did what butts do. You can then imagine a well-heeled woman in a high lace [...]

The SMWS 93.47 (redux)

February 27, 2014

[We reviewed this one a while back and forgot that we did, but we liked it so well, we just reviewed it again. Just take this as the second installment in what could very [...]

The SMWS 93.47

November 8, 2012

[This is the fifth of five reviews (in this batch) of current offerings from the Scotch Malt Whisky Society. Check out the beginning of this other post for more on [...]