Adelphi Clynelish 27 Years Old, Cask 2568
Single Malt - Scotland - 56.30% 8 A robust, straight-ahead Clynelish, which is a great thing.

Adelphi Glen Grant 1970, 27 Years Old, Cask 7638
Single Malt - Scotland - 56.90% 7 Enough character and complexity to withstand the heavy oakiness, but beginning to show its age.

Adelphi Royal Brackla 27 Years Old, Cask 5467
Single Malt - Scotland - 59.50% 7 The best Brackla I have tasted. Night-cap?

Berry's Own Selection Glenlivet 27 Years Old 1982
Single Malt - Scotland - 52.20% 7 The nose is enticing but the palate is overwhelmed by the wood. And water exacerbates the astringency.

Cadenhead's Benromach 1976, 27 Years Old Authentic Collection
Single Malt - Scotland - 57.10% 8 The nose promised more smoothness. Quite an austere character on the palate but with a lot of class.

Cooper's Choice Glen Grant 1977 27 Years Old, Sherry Cask
Single Malt - Scotland - 46.00% 8 A Speysider with a rich chestnut colour, plenty of aroma and lots of flavour. Makes a change from the dumbed-down and the terminally delicate.

Cooper's Choice Longmorn 1975, 27 Years Old
Single Malt - Scotland - 46.00% 8 Complex, as Longmorn always is, but I wonder about the cask.

Cooper's Choice Strathisla 1976, 27 Years Old
Single Malt - Scotland - 46.00% 8 Always a complex whisky, hard to pin down. This sample seems to have triggered an oriental mood.

Dewar Rattray Bunnahabhain 27 Years Old
Single Malt - Scotland - 49.90% 8 Not as elegant and complex as some in this flight, but the breakfast it evoked was hearty and delicious.

Dewar Rattray Glen Mhor 27 Years Old 1982
Single Malt - Scotland - 54.20% 7 An assertive character. A complex nose, a less enticing palate though. But water cuts the edge and makes it conversational. Needs time to “relax”.

Duncan Taylor North British 27 Years Old
Single Grain - Scotland - 52.80% 7 The palate does not have the refreshing appeal of the nose. Water tames it but not enough to make it really palatable.

Inverleven 1979 27 Years Old
Single Malt - Scotland - 54.10% 7 This whisky definitely needs water to extinguish the fire. Would have benefited from a bottling at a lower strength.

Kingsbury Islay 1973, 27 Years Old
Single Malt - Scotland - 47.40% 8 Has this cask slept so long that it cannot completely wake up?

Ladyburn 1973, 27 Years Old
Single Malt - Scotland - 50.40% 6 I am pleased that this very rare malt has been made available. Ladyburn is a product about which I am frequently asked. Sad to say, its greatest appeal is as a collector's item.

Laphroaig 27 Years Old Vintage 1980
Single Malt - Scotland - 51.00% 7 An acquired taste. Some will like it, but it's too woody and nothing on the 1974 bottling by la Maison du Whisky.

Old & Rare Platinum The Macallan 1977 27 Years Old
Single Malt - Scotland - 51.00% 8 This is a very decent example of an independent bottling.

Parker's Heritage Collection 27 Years Old 96 Proof
Bourbon - U.S.A. - 48.00% 8 Heaven Hill has quietly been releasing some stunners in recent years. This is another.

Rare Malts Blair Athol 27 Years Old
Single Malt - Scotland - 54.70% 7 The flavours seem to be held back, then suddenly released. This whisky might have been less inhibited at a younger age.

Rare Malts Cardhu 1973 27 Years Old
Single Malt - Scotland - 60.00% 7 They made bigger, peatier whiskies in those days.

Rare Malts Teaninich 1972 27 Years Old
Single Malt - Scotland - 64.20% 8 This little-known malt almost always surprises me with its robust flavours.

Tamdhu 1984 27 Years Old Scott's Selection
Single Malt - Scotland - 49.60% 8 A nicely-integrated old dram.

The Whisky Exchange Bunnahabhain 27 Years Old
Single Malt - Scotland - 46.00% 7 A welcome addition.

Tomintoul 27 Years Old
Single Malt - Scotland - 40.00% 7 Normally thought of as a light malt but this is a rich, viscous expression.