Gordon & MacPhail Glen Calder
Blended - Scotland - 40.00% 7 On the sweet side, although the finish brings out a more assertive note. A good winter warmer.

Grant's 12 Years old
Blended - Scotland - 40.00% 7 Would take ice and ginger well. Very good blending.

Grant's 12 Years Old
Blended - Scotland - 40.00% Seems more mature than its age. A rich, complex blend.

Grant's 18 Years Old
Blended - Scotland - 40.00% Clearly the 12 Years Old's bigger and darker brother.

Grant's 25 Years Old
Blended - Scotland - 40.00% 7 A delicate and enticing whisky which would have benefited from a higher strength. When you want to try a little tenderness.

Grant's 25 Years Old
Blended - Scotland - 43.00% More lifted than the 12 and 18. The perfumed note is rather dominant.

Grant's Family Reserve
Blended - Scotland - 40.00% 7 Does exactly what it sets out to do.

Grant's Sherry Cask
Blended - Scotland - 40.00% 8 Masculine. Rather austere, aloof.

Grant's The Family Reserve
Blended - Scotland - 40.00% A teasing mix of sweet and dry. One of the best ‘standards'.

Greenwich Meridian 2000 Blended Scotch
Blended - Scotland - 40.00% 8 Seems like an attempt at an old-fashioned blend, but a bit two-dimensional.

Hankey Bannister 12 Years Old
Blended - Scotland - 40.00% Solid and dependable.

Hankey Bannister 21 Years Old
Blended - Scotland - 43.00% Perky but with lovely balance.

Hankey Bannister 40 Years Old
Blended - Scotland - 44.00%

Hankey Bannister 40 Years Old
Blended - Scotland - 44.00% Multi-award winning –and you can see why. Mature, complex and elegant.

Hankey Bannister Original
Blended - Scotland - 40.00% Lightly peppery coriander seed.

Highland Harvest Organic Scotch Whisky
Blended - Scotland - 40.00% 7 Well put together. Not hugely complex, but a pleasant dram.

Honey Spice 1991
Blended - Scotland - 46.00% 8 Balanced and with good energy.

Islay Mist 12 Years Old
Blended - Scotland - 40.00% 7 Needs water to open the nose, but the palate is rather simple.

Islay Mist 17 Years Old
Blended - Scotland - 40.00% 8 Cutting this to 40% means it's lost some of its energy. Let's have a cask strength version!

Islay Mist 17 Years Old, Premium
Blended - Scotland - 40.00% 7 The Islay aromas and flavours seemed to have almost vanished among the heathery mainland notes in the blending. They were just hiding. I came back to the glass three or four hours later and they had e...

Islay Mist Blended Scotch Whisky
Blended - Scotland - 40.00% 8 A distinctively Laphroaig-led blend, even though that distillery and this blend are now owned by separate companies.

Isle of Skye 12 Years Old
Blended - Scotland - 40.00% 8 The aromas and flavours evoke breakfast, but in a farmhouse kitchen with an open fire, rused and dashed by the winds down the chimney.

Isle of Skye 8 Years Old
Blended - Scotland - 40.00% 7 Tasty, satisfying. Linger over it. It opens up after a long time in the glass.

Isle of Skye 8 Years Old
Blended - Scotland - 40.00% 6 Nose and palate seem to be flattened by excess of sickly sweetness.

J & B
Blended - Scotland - 40.00% Another in that light, post-Prohibition style.