Glen Keith reviews

This is an older release of Glen Keith from the Old Malt Cask series, when it still belonged to Douglas Laing (before the demerger, now it belongs to his brother’s company Hunter Laing & Co). It was…

When I learned that Asta Morris was about to launch another Glen Keith 1994, I was already wringing my hands in anticipation. After all, the previous release about a year ago, was truly fabulous – but…

This is the oldest Glen Keith I have ever tried. Distilled on 29th October 1968 and bottled on 1st May 2018 in only 42 individually numbered decanter that – together with a signed certificate – come in…

I discovered this Glen Keith at the whiskyfestival Sprits in the Sky in November 2018. It was however bottled for the Whisky Fair in Germany. Apparently a few bottles found their way to my neck of the…

The Italian/Scottish duo that runs the independent bottler Valinch & Mallet are very picky about the individual casks they select for bottling. Only when both are absolutely convinced, will they put it…

Passion for Whisky is a well-known Dutch liquor store. Crazy Bert works with them for the first time with this very limited (only 42 bottles) Glen Keith. It cost around 150 EUR but – as is usually the…

This is the 8th and final release in the Lads of Lobland series by the Belgian Bring Your Own Bottle Club – or BYOB-C (‘biopsy’). It was bottled in collaboration with Liquid Art. They chose a Speysider…

Glen Keith rarely disappoints. This bottling by the Swiss company Chapter 7 is a very pale Glen Keith from 1997. The cask yielded 309 bottles, which I find quite a lot.The nose is fresh and… a little…

Once in a while, you make a calculated guess when visiting a specialist whisky shop and you pick a reasonably priced bottle from the shelf, from a distillery you appreciate by an independent bottler you…

This Glen Keith by Blackadder is very pale and – like all Raw Cask bottlings by Robin Tucek and his team – has some cask residue. I am not sure what the purpose is. They have to be added again after…