Glen Scotia 7 yrs - Single Cask

Glen Scotia, Heavily Peated, Single Cask Bottling, O.B., 45%.

Cask no. 525, n.c.f. / n.c.
Bottle 168 of 330.

Color: Applejuice.
Nose: Peaty soil after a rainstorm. Wet rocks in a stream through the highland-wilderness. Black peppers.
Taste: Peppery and hot! Suddenly some nice sweet notes arise... with smoke and again some peat, but less heavy now. Slightly spicy also, aniseed with some nice sweet liquorice.
Aftertaste: Peaty with a very strong and peppery middle, grips and rips but escapes quite quickly... leaving a small film of pepperish peat in your mouth behind. It could have been so much more... but well, I'm not complaining now.
Score: 88.
Remarks: Very good price - quality level.
Bought it for less then 35 euros in The Netherlands.

Glenfarclas 10 yrs

Glenfarclas 10 yrs, O.B., 40%

Color: Light Gold.
Nose: Slightly spicy, dusty with heather on a sunny day. Some smoke and white pepper. In the back some slightly notes of metal.
Taste: Smoky with hints of sherry, quite spicy and full. The first approach of this Glenfarclas is quite powerfull but it leaves you behind with an elegant smile of pleasure.
Aftertaste: Rather long for such a young edition of the Glenfarclas stable. Quite warm and smoky, well balanced! Fresh spices, somewhat dry and smoky... just as I like it.
Score: 85. (same score as one year earlier)
Remarks: Already bought 3 bottles and all are empty. Enough marketing-talk for me... to be honest!

Glen Storn 12 - Unknown

Glen Storn, 12 yrs, 40%, Highland Single Malt.
Unkwown history or bottler.

Color: Gold.
Nose: Just printed magazines. The ink is overwhelming. Dusty copper stills, the ones who have not been running for quite some years... Not very promising.
Taste: Starts like water and than all kinds of flavours, most of them remain questionmarks in my book, fighting for a good seat at the front row but nobody gets there, So is the taste, it's going nowhere. Rusty water is the only taste I can really describe now.
Aftertaste: Medium aftertaste though! Lots of mixed up flavours that remain unknown to my skills of tasting. Some metals, copper and rust - that's all really.
Score: 55.
Remarks: Bought this bottle in Sauerland (Germany) for only 15 euros. It was worth the try! After all, it could have been so much more!

Glen Ord 12 yrs

Glen Ord, 12 yrs, O.B., 43%

Color: Dark gold.
Nose: Honey and heather, wooden matches, manure, some slight sherry tones in the background, black soil.
Taste: Quite creamy with honey, thick cream that develops on sweet juicy spices. interesting whisky, no doubt. Some toffee to finish it off.
Aftertaste: Medium long with sweet smoke, some sherry notes and oak, spicy and sweet.
Score: 82.
Remarks: No remarks at all. A good reasonable priced whisky for every day.

Nikka White - Pure Malt

Nikka White, Pure Malt, 43%

Color: Gold, slightly orange.
Nose: Wet bark, sawdust, something lightly peated, smoky is a better word for it, some dark orangie sherry notes in the back.
Taste: Liquorice, smoky, quite sweet, burning peat in the back, slowly building up some peppery notes... quite a bitter finale. Where is the promised peat?
Aftertaste: A bitterness best described as "a good try... but this isn't a single malt!" A pure malt in every way. The smoke has gone for a walk and leaves you behind with sweet, soft woody tones of unknown bitterness... How about the Black version?
Score: 70.
Remarks: The nose is much more fun than tasting it. Isn't that the case with most vatted malts?