Strathmill 1996-2009 | Managers' Choice | Cask 5503Speyside single malt scotch whisky Distillery Bottling 70cl 60. 1% Single cask speysider from Strathmill with a yield of 300 units released as part of the Managers' Choice selection a range of expressions of single cask bottling from each of Diageo's 27 malt whisky distilleries.

Palate: Well balanced with tones of chocolate

honeyed and lightly fruity with delicate herbal notes

dates and prunes and a trace of banana

all infused with fresh coffee grounds and cocoa beans

masses of green fruits

a beautiful and elegant release from Arran to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the birth of Robert Burns in 2009

tasty blended whisky with a decent proportion of malt and big spicy

beefy powerhouse of a dram

These Flora & Fauna Glendullans replaced the old Macdonald Greenlees official bottlings of Glendullan 12-year-old when they were introduced around the end of the 1980s/early 1990s

Sherry butts and burgundy casks are married together yielding a generously intense

the only problem with this lovely idea was that the bottles that the replicas were based on were in fact clever fakes that the distillery had acquired

This smoky Benriach was distilled in 1994 and aged in a bourbon barrel before being bottled as a 22-year-old in November 2016