Adelphi Glen Grant 1969
Single Malt - Scotland - 52.90% 8 Holds up very well in the middle but the woodiness at the end is overpowering.

Adelphi Glen Grant 1969
Single Malt - Scotland - 53.90% 8 Glen Grant is a delicate whisky and does not always benefit from long maturation. This bottling is on the cusp. The distillery character can still be discerned, but only just.

Balblair 1969 Vintage
Single Malt - Scotland - 45.00% 8 For a whisky that is very light when young, this matures surprisingly well and for long periods

Benromach 1969
Single Malt - Scotland - 40.00% 7 An old-fashioned whisky for an old-fashioned winter's evening. Wins points for being cuddly rather than complex.

Bowmore 40 Years Old, 1969
Single Malt - Scotland - 44.80% 9 Superb balance. Classic distillery character retained after four decades - no mean achievement.

Cadenhead's Dumbarton 1969, Sherry Wood
Single Grain - Scotland - 51.20% 8 Bossily buoyant. Loses in delicacy what it gains in flavour and texture. Miles away from the Lowlands.

Duncan Taylor Bruichladdich 1969, 33 Years Old
Single Malt - Scotland - 48.70% 8 Good balance – has stood up to its cask well, retaining a zest not overwhelmed by age.

Duncan Taylor Bunnahabhain 1969, 36 Years Old
Single Malt - Scotland - 40.70% 7 Hasn't held up for its age anything like as well as the previous thirty-something Bruichladdich. The cask has won this battle.

Duncan Taylor Caperdonich 1969 34 Years Old
Single Malt - Scotland - 41.00% 7 Quite engaging, but just past its best.

Duncan Taylor Lonach Glenrothes
- Scotland - 42.70% 7 Reminds me of gentlemen's coconut oil shaving cream. If you like that,you'll love this.

Glenfarclas The Family Cask, Release 3 1969 Cask 3188 39 Years Old
Single Malt - Scotland - 55.00% 7 Big and tannic. Would add structure to a blend.

Gordon & MacPhail Caol Ila 1969
Single Malt - Scotland - 45.00% 3 Surprisingly, the distillery character resists in this oldie. And peat “revisits” the aromatic palette. Integration again but no fusion.

Gordon & MacPhail Linkwood 1969
Single Malt - Scotland - 40.00% 7 Linkwood is a lovely whisky, especially in its older incarnations.

Murray McDavid Mission II Glen Grant 1969
Single Malt - Scotland - 46.00% 8 This delicate malt in unusually full flavour.

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

Private Collection Clynelish 1969
Single Malt - Scotland - 45.00% 8 A hint of sulphur in the nose had me dismissing this whisky. It seemed young, immature, callow – but we finishing up flirting.

Private Collection Caol Ila 1969
Single Malt - Scotland - 45.00% 8 After a few of these, the rebel leader (played by Anthony Quinn) toasts freedom, and we start firing our carbines in the air.

Rare Malts Millburn 1969 35 Years Old
Single Malt - Scotland - 51.20% 8 The mental picture is of an old library filled with leather bound volumes and someone smoking a pipe in the distance.

Strathclyde 37 Years Old
Single Grain - Scotland - 54.40% 7 It's in the twilight of its autumn, but has subtle complexity and less of the overt sweetness that old grains usually exhibit.

The Family Casks 1969 Release II Cask number 3185
- Scotland - 56.50% 6 Another that's lost it.

The Glenlivet 1969 Cellar Collection
Single Malt - Scotland - 50.80% 8 Magnificent, but I hate to think of the price!

The Glenlivet 1969 Vintage
Single Malt - Scotland - 52.20% 8 A little woody.