Product Reviews — new products

Today we shall be having a look at a mystery distillery bottling from the Duncan Taylor octave series.    Not much is known about the origin of this bottle, other than it has spent 10 years in oak casks and 9 months in a sherry octave cask.   A release of only 86 bottles, this was released without added colour or chill filtration at 53.7% ABV.   The nose opens with musty citrus, almost raisins resting in orange liqueur. Malted barley and cherries make an appearance in the background. A little time in the glass brings out damp oak and...

Today we shall be having a look at a rather special 42 year old Tobermory.Found on the Isle Of Mull, Tobermory was established in 1798 as a brewery. Called Ledaig when it opened (Gaelic for hope), the distillery went through many hands in the 18th century before it was closed in 1930, and would remain that way until 1972.Today Tobermory produces a light un-peated spirit released as Tobermory. They also make a heavily peated whisky, released as Ledaig.Purchased by Distell in 2013 and after a major refurbishment, we have seen high quality releases from this distillery ever since.Here we have...

Here we have a rather special single cask, a 29 year old North British sherry cask, released by the fine folks at Duncan Taylor. The North British (the archaic and somewhat disparaging term applied to post-Jacobite Scotland) distillery was founded in Edinburgh in 1885 to be direct competition Cameronbridge grain distillery.  Production started in 1887 from a single Coffey. Within three years capacity had doubled to three million gallons a year. Expansions kept happening and at one point this distillery was the largest grain producer in Scotland.  Today the distillery in owned by Diageo and is used in many blends...