Chivas Brothers 100 Pipers, 8 Years Old
Blended - Scotland - 40.00% 7 A very gentle and fruity whisky. Would have benefited from a balancing dryness.

Chivas Brothers Caperdonich 16 Years Old, Cask Strength Edition
Single Malt - Scotland - 55.80% 7 Promises more than it delivers. Try it with sweet Turkish coffee or espresso.

Chivas Brothers Glenallachie 15 Years Old, Cask Strength Edition
Single Malt - Scotland - 58.00% 8 Perhaps too sweet for some malt lovers but packed with flavour. Bland it ain't.

Chivas Regal 12 Years Old
Blended - Scotland - 40.00% 8 The flavours tail off, as though the whisky is going to sleep. Smooth and easy, but lacks liveliness. Springtime never quite blossoms into summer.

Chivas Regal 12 Years Old
Blended - Scotland - 40.00% 7 Delicately balanced. Clean. Drinkable. There is an element of luxury, but never quite the frisson of luxury that the marketing implies.

Chivas Regal 12 Years Old
Blended - Scotland - 40.00% Clean and light.

Chivas Regal 18 Years Old
Blended - Scotland - 40.00% 8 A bit overbalanced by sherry, but nicely rounded by the smoky finish.

Chivas Regal 18 Years Old
Blended - Scotland - 40.00% Has richness, but is always also being pulled up adding a top layer of fragrance. Loses the impact with water, so I'd have it neat or with one rock.

Chivas Regal 18 Years Old Gold Signature
Blended - Scotland - 40.00% 9 This jewel is bursting with life and joie de vivre, like a bright aromatic rainbow. Want a wee refill?

Chivas Regal 25 Years old
- Scotland - 40.00% 8 Great blending,but it would be even better if bottled at a slightly higher strength.

Clan Campbell 8 Years Old
Blended Malt - Scotland - 40.00% 6 To stimulate a sweet tooth when served with a fruit cake.

Clan Campbell Highlander 12 Years Old
Blended - Scotland - 40.00% 7 Rounded. On the sweet side.

Clan Campbell Legendary, 18 Years Old
Blended - Scotland - 40.00% 8 With a light, fragrant cigar?

Royal Salute 21 Years Old
Blended - Scotland - 40.00% 8 In the rich, luxurious, style, this is a long established favourite of mine.

Royal Salute 21 Years Old
Blended - Scotland - 40.00% 8 After dinner, I would usually think of a malt, but have long enjoyed the unashamed luxuriousness of this blend. This example seems fractionally less voluptuous than I remember, but my memories may be ...

Royal Salute 21 Years Old
Blended - Scotland - 43.00% 8 Antique shop aromas. Oak and fruit locked in a sensual embrace.

Royal Salute 50 Years Old
Blended - Scotland - 40.00% 8 A work of craftsmanship, elegance and its own style.

Royal Salute The Hundred Cask Selection
Blended - Scotland - 40.00% 7 Robust, rather than complex. A sustaining, sweetish, restorative.