Deanston reviews

This is my first bottle of Deanston whisky. Not my usual thing to start with the 18 but at the time I brought the bottle I had a lot of younger whiskies in my stash and not many 15+ whiskies.First thing…

The Deanston Cotton Mill opened its doors way back in 1785. By the mid-1960s the cotton industry in Scotland had declined and Deanston switched over to making whisky. From what I could find on the int…

I picked this up in December 2018 while hunting (whisky) with @nosebleed in Calgary. It was reasonably priced and I was hoping we might open it and do a joint review but life got in the way. I brought…

I admit, Deanston does not rock my boat. Especially the official releases leave me pretty cold. That might explain why this is only the 15th that I try. It’s a relatively young distillery. The former…

You see them more often nowadays: whisky’s finished or matured on red wine casks from France. This Deanston from 2008 spent the whole 9 years on such a cask from Bordeaux and was bottled at cask strength…

Deanston started life as the Adelphi Cotton Mill, founded by the Buchanan brothers who were themselves in the employ of Richard Arkwrigth, the inventor of the Spinning Jenny. Fast forward to 1966 and the…

Whiskypedia is a fun whiskyclub in Belgium, founded in 2012. On Saturday 29th September 2018 they organise – for the second time – a whisky festival at which they will present their newest club bottling…

As mentioned in part I, all these whiskys were evaluated blind during my last club meeting.This is from a recent batch with the new livery and bottle shape. Deanston has been receiving a lot more atte…

@Astroke inspired me to pick this up. A 10 YO possibly cask strength bottle for $80 (inaccurately listed as 46.3% at LCBO). The only experience I have with Deanston is in the context of @paddockjudge’s…

Since Burn Stewart Distillers took over the brand Deanston in 2009 – together with Tobermory, Ledaig and Bunnahabhain – it is bottled at 46,3% ABV and not chill filtered. The new (well) version of Dea…