Famous Grouse 1987 Vintage Malt Whisky
Blended Malt - Scotland - 40.00% 8 The Grouse at its most graceful.

Famous Grouse 1989 Vintage Malt
Blended Malt - Scotland - 40.00% 8 The Grouse enthusiast who tastes this vatted version will be seduced by it. The aromas and flavours suggest malts from the company's own distilleries – and perhaps a little more Highland Park than l...

Gordon & MacPhail Pride of Islay 12 Years Old
Blended Malt - Scotland - 40.00% 7 More Islay character on the nose than on the palate. A good appetite-teaser.

Gordon & MacPhail Pride of Orkney 12 Years Old
Blended Malt - Scotland - 40.00% 7 Very fragrant on the nose but more restrained in the mouth. Needs time to perk up.

Gordon & MacPhail Pride of Strathspey 12 Years Old
Blended Malt - Scotland - 40.00% 8 Good introduction to Speyside's generosity. Especially if served with a crème brûlée.

Gordon & MacPhail Pride of the Lowlands 12 Years Old
Blended Malt - Scotland - 40.00% 7 Disappointingly on the wood side. For those who like it oaky!

Grand Old Parr 12 Years Old
Blended Malt - Scotland - 43.00% 8 If you want to taste barley in a blend, look no further than this muscular heavyweight.

Grand Old Parr 18 Years Old, Classic
Blended Malt - Scotland - 46.00% 7 Is this a vatted malt? Glendullan-plus?

Ian Macleod Pure Island Malt
Blended Malt - Scotland - 43.00% 7 Light but enjoyable flavours. A lively, attractive, feminine whisky, but the island character is scarcely evident: an omission for which a half point is deducted.

Ian Macleod Pure Island Malt
Blended Malt - Scotland - 43.00% 7 Definitely an Islander, tastes young. Could have more finesse.

Johnnie Walker 15 Years Old, Pure Malt
Blended Malt - Scotland - 43.00% 8 Neat, characterful and witty. Keeps the woody tones in the back.

Lombard Anchor Bay
Blended Malt - Scotland - 40.00% 7 A satisfying, nourishing, clean malt. But where is the bay?

Lombard Golden Harvest
Blended Malt - Scotland - 40.00% 6 Too young? Or a restricted vatting? Not very exciting.

Lombard Smoking Ember
Blended Malt - Scotland - 40.00% 8 A ‘love it or hate it' islander. Bold and uncompromising. And so charming.

Monkey Shoulder
Blended Malt - Scotland - 40.00% 6 Immaculately attired and perfectly pleasant.

Monkey Shoulder Batch 27
Blended Malt - Scotland - 40.00% 7 An elegant dram, dominated by orange and spices. For a Christmas treat? Water is not needed.

Selected by Berry's Islay Reserve Blended Malt
Blended Malt - Scotland - 46.00% 7 A young Ileach, close to the new make. The cask has not imparted much. But a clean dram. Refreshing and tonic.

Selected by Berry's Speyside Reserve Blended Malt
Blended Malt - Scotland - 46.00% 8 A refined, complex and charming dram. An absolute cracker.

The Famous Grouse Blended Malt 37 Years Old
Blended Malt - Scotland - 47.60% 8 If this is John Ramsay's last blend then what a way to go. Masterly. The slow ever-changing multifaceted style is blending at its very best.

Wemyss Vintage Malts Dried Fruit Basket
Blended Malt - Scotland - 46.00% 7 That raw sulphury edge suggests an immature whisky or one where there's been little communication between cask and whisky.

Wemyss Vintage Malts Mocha Spice 21 Years Old, 1990
Blended Malt - Scotland - 46.00% 8 Good palate whisky, but keep the water on the side.

Wemyss Vintage Malts Peat Chimney 5 Years Old
Blended Malt - Scotland - 40.00% 7 If it's a chimney it's one above a sweet shop.

Wemyss Vintage Malts Peat Chimney, 12 Years Old
Blended Malt - Scotland - 40.00% 7 A well knitted islander. No complexity but a straightforward character.

Wemyss Vintage Malts Smooth Gentleman
Blended Malt - Scotland - 43.00% 7 It was all going so well...

Wemyss Vintage Malts Smooth Gentleman 5 Years Old
Blended Malt - Scotland - 40.00% 8 Maybe just a little too eager to please, but maybe I'm just too hard to please.