Glen Scotia reviews

There's quite a convoluted method to the cask make up of these but, to sum up - selected ex bourbon casks are filled into heavy charred American oak and 30% px for a year or so, with a final marrying…

Campbeltown Harbour is a NAS-expression from the Glen Scotia distillery, matured on first fill bourbon casks – which explains the color. My dear friend Nadine offered me the sample.The nose is very…

A young Glen Scotia that matured on a whisky cask? That sounds interesting. Distilled in 2007 and after 11 years on a Bordeaux cask it still yielded 292 bottles. This is an official release in their so…

I skipped Day 10 of the calendar as it was another one of my go-tos: Laphroaig 10 Year Old (which I enjoyed side-by-side with a cask-strength Cairdeas Triple Wood - both of those were reviewed before)…

Glen Scotia is “the other Campbeltown” distillery. Most people know the Springbank distillery which sells whisky under the Springbank, Longrow, and Hazeburn brands, as well as the Glengyle distillery…

I opened this bottle not long after lock down started whilst on a Zoom call with some Canadian friends ... wink wink! I enjoyed this as soon as it was opened but a bit of air has really brought this on…

The festival was cancelled, but the festival bottling certainly hit the market with no less than 15.000 bottles. You can find it left and right for around 70 EUR. It’s a 14 years old Glen Scotia that…

I am happy to put two sister cask from Glen Scotia head-to-head: cask #17/413-2 against cask #17/413-8, both put to sleep in 2005 and both bottled in 2019. The first is a Tawny Port Hogshead that yielded…

I am happy to put two sister cask from Glen Scotia head-to-head: cask #17/413-2 against cask #17/413-8, both put to sleep in 2005 and both bottled in 2019. The first is a Tawny Port Hogshead that yielded…

Here we have a single cask of Glen Scotia that was put to sleep in 2018, albeit a first fill port cask. So I expect this to be all about red fruit with a dirty edge. Let’s see if Glen Scotia can fulfil…