Old Malt Cask Director's Tactical Selection, 18 Years Old
Single Malt - Scotland - 50.00% 8 This has it all but goes about it in an unflashy manner. Good.

Old Malt Cask Ardbeg 15 Years Old
Single Malt - Scotland - 50.00% 8 Too chimney-like for me. Lacks the balance between sweetness and dryness you need in such a peaty dram.

Old Malt Cask Ardbeg 24 Years Old
Single Malt - Scotland - 50.00% 8 Full of flavour and complexity, but less challenging than some Ardbegs. More peaty than the bottling reviewed among new releases. Some woodiness.

Old Malt Cask Ardbeg 28 Years Old, The Ardbeggeddon 1972, Sherry Cask
Single Malt - Scotland - 48.40% 8 One of the best Ardbegs I have ever tasted. Full range of the distillery's typical flavours, lyrically combined.

Old Malt Cask Ardmore 1977 30 Years Old
Single Malt - Scotland - 50.00% 7 Has maturity and presence. Ardmore: a complete package.

Old Malt Cask Auchentoshan 1978
Single Malt - Scotland - 50.00% 7 Promising nose. Palate hard to tame, disappointing.

Old Malt Cask Aultmore 1989, 16 Years Old
Single Malt - Scotland - 50.00% 7 Don't get me wrong, there's nothing bad with this it's just amazingly bland.

Old Malt Cask Banff 32 Years Old
Single Malt - Scotland - 50.00% 8 What a lovely wee dram! Gentle, fragrant,open and lively. So comforting.

Old Malt Cask Bowmore 10 Years Old
Single Malt - Scotland - 50.00%

Old Malt Cask Bowmore 1991, 12 Years Old
Single Malt - Scotland - 50.00% 7 Lightweight, but very drinkable.

Old Malt Cask Brora 18 Years Old
Single Malt - Scotland - 50.00% 8 More Islay-like than its Clynelish brothers. Was this some of the last made with highly peated malt?

Old Malt Cask Bruichladdich 1969
Single Malt - Scotland - 53.50% 8 Shows that this whisky can handle some age and sherry.

Old Malt Cask Bruichladdich, 18 Years Old
Single Malt - Scotland - 50.00% 7 Aniceand pleasant summer dram. With the right amountof fruit. Five a day ?

Old Malt Cask Caol Ila 1991, 12 Years Old
Single Malt - Scotland - 50.00% 8 Conclusion: Another perfectly fine Coal Ila, but nothing to blow the mind.

Old Malt Cask Caol Ila 1996, 12 Years Old
Single Malt - Scotland - 50.00% 7 Another lovely Caol Ila that just lacks a little weight.

Old Malt Cask Clynelish 1971, 30 Years Old
Single Malt - Scotland - 50.00% 7 There's more in the nose than in the finish. A really characterful malt. Interesting. This is one of the more medicinal expressions of Clynelish I have come across.

Old Malt Cask Clynelish 23 Years Old
Single Malt - Scotland - 50.00% 8 All comes together at the end.

Old Malt Cask Convalmore 30 Years Old 1976
Single Malt - Scotland - 50.00% 7 Shows maturity but very front loaded.

Old Malt Cask Dufftown 30 Years Old 1977
Single Malt - Scotland - 50.00% 7 Has a cleanliness and delicacy but lacking in impact overall. You expect complexity from old whiskies.

Old Malt Cask Glencadam 21 Years Old 1985
Single Malt - Scotland - 50.00% 7 Well balanced and with real charm and some complexity.

Old Malt Cask Glenglassaugh 30 Years Old
Single Malt - Scotland - 45.60% 7 Another whose palate runs counter to its nose.

Old Malt Cask Glen Grant 12 Years Old Wine Finish
Single Malt - Scotland - 50.00% 6 Seems cobbled together.

Old Malt Cask Highland Park 10 Years Old
Single Malt - Scotland - 50.00% 7 Utterly delicious, but the sherry masks the peat and salt.

Old Malt Cask Laphroaig 16 Years Old
Single Malt - Scotland - 50.00% 8 Good all-round Laphroaig. Sound stuff.

Old Malt Cask Laphroaig 17 Years Old, Rum Finish
Single Malt - Scotland - 50.00% 7 Confident. Slightly austere.

Old Malt Cask Laphroaig 18 Years Old
Single Malt - Scotland - 50.00% 7 This has balance. Like it.

Old Malt Cask Laphroaig 1985 17 Years Old
Single Malt - Scotland - 50.00% 8 This seems far less lively and rounded than the 1987 whisky bottled in 1992.

Old Malt Cask Longmorn, 19 Years Old
Single Malt - Scotland - 50.00% 7 A nice dram but a bit thin. Easy to forget.

Old Malt Cask North Port 36 Years Old
Single Malt - Scotland - 49.30% 7 Of interest to collectors, historians and the likes of me, but this Brechin brew, staunched in 1983, never made a great whisky.

Old Malt Cask Port Ellen 1978 24 Years Old
Single Malt - Scotland - 50.00% 8 This one blew up a storm for me.

Old Malt Cask Port Ellen 1979 Sherry Cask 21 Years Old
Single Malt - Scotland - 50.00% 8 Port Ellen had such a distinctive character. This seems to be one of the less robust bottlings, yet has some character.

Old Malt Cask Port Ellen 1982 21 Years Old
Single Malt - Scotland - 50.00% 8 A big beast of a Port Ellen, nicely caught before the sherry-wood tipped it over the edge.

Old Malt Cask Port Ellen Sherry 1982 25 Years Old
Single Malt - Scotland - 50.00% 7 A phenolic fellow. Tough on the nose, sweet on the palate. But the aromatic profile is not exciting.

Old Malt Cask Scapa 13 Years Old
Single Malt - Scotland - 50.00% 7 Light and discreet. Perfectly pleasant but not exactly exciting.

Old Malt Cask St Magdalene, 24 Years Old
Single Malt - Scotland - 50.00% 5 If this was in a better cask it would have been a rather pleasant whisky.

Old Malt Cask Tactical 1990 16 Years old
Single Malt - Scotland - 50.00% 6 Very thin. Not delivering much. Like a watercolour faded by sun exposure.

Old Malt Cask Talisker 20 Years Old, Director's Tactical
Single Malt - Scotland - 50.00% 5 The distillery character is buried far below the wood. One can hardly detect even a light puff of smoke. Water does not help.

Old Malt Cask Tamnavulin (Bourbon Cask)
- - 50.00% 7 Best neat.

Old Malt Cask Glenlivet, 18 Years Old
Single Malt - Scotland - 50.00% 7 A delicious dram. As pleasant a s a walk in an orchard on a sunny autumn day. Crisp,fresh and sunny

Old Malt Cask Macallan 1986 21 Years Old
Single Malt - Scotland - 50.00% 7 A good deliveryof oak and fruit,well combined. Quite a spicy character.

Old Malt Cask The Macallan (Rum Finish), 12 Years Old
Single Malt - Scotland - 50.00% 7 All rather insubstantial but attractive enough though.

Old Malt Cask Tomatin
- Scotland - 50.00% 7 Lovely. Has retained freshness (or taken a long time to get here.