1999 Douglas Laing Old Particular Macduff 16 Year Old Single Cask Single Malt Scotch Whisky, Speyside, Scotland Cragganmore

1999 Douglas Laing Old Particular Macduff 16 Year Old Single Cask Single Malt Scotch Whisky, Speyside, Scotland CragganmoreColour: White wine. Nose: Some coffee and chocolate , then fresh fruits and fruit drops plus quite some vanilla. Mouth (neat): Creamy and oily, liqueurish, with some bitterness (Jgermeister) on top of the expected fruitiness (ripe apples and oranges, a little bubblegum). More pepper and just touches of salt. Finish: Very long and quite peppery.

if blind tasted

Full bodied

then vanilla

The Pinot Blanc Ice Wine of the St

Whiffs of camphor

Nose: Not too expressive but nicely grainy and nutty

Planted on our most beautiful clay-limestone slopes and cultivated with passion

The current Cardhu / Cardow distillery isn't the 'original' one

Nose: Char

Wine Advocate-McLaren Vale

With water: more classic

This rare 28 year old Campbeltown malt was distilled at the Springbank distillery in July 1974 and bottled in March 2003 for the Chieftain's series from Ian Macleod & Co