Review #985 - Highland Park Full Volume
In 2017, Highland Park released this one-off bottling called Full Volume; it carries a distillation vintage of 1999, so we can surmise that it's at least 17 years old.
Review #984 - SMWS 9.188 'Out of this World' - Glen Grant 12 Year
Glen Grant is one of the older distilleries in Scotland, established in 1840.
Review #983 - Decadent Drams The Virtual Malt 17 Year (Macallan)
There's no distillery mentioned on the label, but this is a Macallan single malt which was aged for 17 years.
Review #982 - Bushmills Prohibition Recipe
Here we have a twist on a celebrity-endorsed whisky - this Bushmills is co-branded with the Peaky Blinders television show.
Review #981 - Signatory Vintage 1995 Clynelish 21 Year Cask Strength Collection
The wood type for this cask was a refill sherry butt, but despite that and the 21 years of maturation, the color of this liquid is still relatively light.
Review #980 - Ardnamurchan AD/ Peated Sauternes Cask Release
Ardnamurchan has released whiskies from a huge variety of casks, and now we're looking at a Sauternes cask release from 2025.
Review #979 - Cadenhead's Benrinnes 16 Year Fino Single Cask
This Benrinnes single malt was distilled in 2006, and then in June of 2019, it was moved to that sherry cask; it was bottled in the Spring of 2023.
Review #978 - Glenmorangie Triple Cask Reserve
his is a non-age-stated whisky which uses 3 types of casks for maturation: ex-bourbon casks, ex-rye casks, and also virgin (new charred oak) casks.
Review #977 - Bruichladdich 10 Year Old Skool
The focus of these anniversary bottlings has been ex-bourbon casks so that the distillate itself can be highlighted.
Review #976 - Found North Lustrum
Found North is already celebrating 5 years of blend producing, and they've decided to commemorate the occasion with a bottling called Lustrum.
Review #975 - Kilchoman Loch Gruinart
This is a non-age-stated whisky, and based on that cheap price point, this is believed to be on the younger, more spirity side of Kilchoman whiskies.
Review #974 - SMWS 64.162 'Adventurers Around a Campfire' - Mannochmore 17 Year
In the past year or so, the Scotch Malt Whisky Society has started to bottle more of these "Two to One" casks.
Review #973 - Rabbit Hole Heigold
The full mashbill is 70% corn, 25% malted rye, and 5% malted barley.
Review #972 - Machrie Moor Third Edition
Back when Isle of Arran Distillers did produce peated whisky at Lochranza, they branded it as Machrie Moor.
Review #971 - GlenDronach 21 Year Parliament (2020)
Under Billy Walker's stewardship, the GlenDronach distillery and brand were completely revamped from an inconsistent, little-known producer into a fan-loved sherry-dominant powerhouse.
Review #970 - Evan Williams 8 Year Single Barrel Vintage 2015
This is a single barrel bourbon with a distillation vintage and a reasonable price tag: around $28, which is even cheaper than the $35 it cost when we reviewed another vintage last year.
Review #969 - SMWS 66.260 'Post-Bonfire Bath Bomb' - Ardmore 27 Year
The Society categorized this single malt in their new 'Smoky & Fruity' flavor profile.
Review #968 - Glenfarclas 40 Year
Only a few distilleries have been operating long enough and consistently enough to offer ultra-aged single malts on a regular basis - Glenfarclas is one of those.
Review #967 - Kilchoman 11 Year 100% Islay Sherry Cask Matured
This release features 100% Islay spirit which was fully matured in Oloroso sherry butts, and it's been aged for at least 11 years at the time of bottling.
Review #966 - Glenlivet 12 Year Jamaica Edition
They only finish a part of the batch in those Jamaican rum casks, so we'll see how much of an influence the tropical spirit really has on this whisky.