Adelphi Clynelish 1989, 13 Years Old
Single Malt - Scotland - 56.70% 8 Not the most peaty Clynelish I have tasted, but a lovely, distinctive whisky.

Adelphi Knockdhu 1989, 12 Years Old, Cask 286
Single Malt - Scotland - 56.60% 7 Delicious. Perilously drinkable. Drink it with dessert. No, pour it all over the ice-cream.

Balblair 1989 Vintage
Single Malt - Scotland - 43.00% 7 Seems young, but very attractive.

Berry's Own Selection Benrinnes 1989
Single Malt - Scotland - 46.00% 7 Bizarrely, the nose reminded me of an Argentinian Torrontes. Where's the famed Benrinnes meatiness?

Berry's Own Selection Girvan 1989
Single Grain - Scotland - 46.00% 8 An excellent refreshing dram. Well balanced, rich and light at the same time. Very enjoyable with chilled water.

Blackadder Bowmore 1989
Single Malt - Scotland - 63.30% 7 All the elements of Bowmore, and plenty of alcohol, but extra dimension.

Blackadder Mortlach 1989
Single Malt - Scotland - 60.50% 8 Enjoyable, with an appropriate touch of earthy rawness, but not as statuesque as this elegant whisky can be.

Cadenhead's Bladnoch 1989, 12 Years Old
Single Malt - Scotland - 56.30% 7 A neat, summery comforter. Perfect dram for hillwalkers.

Cadenhead's Bladnoch 1989, 13 Years Old
Single Malt - Scotland - 54.90% 7 Tired and irritable when first poured, but gradually opens up, more so when water was added.

Cadenhead's Rosebank 1989, 9 Years Old
Single Malt - Scotland - 43.00% 8 All of the characteristic floweriness of Rosebank, but with some roundness.

Celtique Connexion Mortlach 1989 Spirit Safe & Cask Selection
Single Malt - Scotland - 43.00% 6 Lacks contribution from wood. Lacks complexity.

Celtique Connexion Speyside 1989, Armagnac Wood Finish
Single Malt - Scotland - 43.00% 8 Still sweet, but much more rounded. Real depth of flavour, tastes more like Armagnac than whisky. I would like to try it with pecan pie.

Celtique Connexion Speyside 1989, Sauternes Wood Finish
Single Malt - Scotland - 43.00% 7 Which Sauternes? The flavours of childhood, rather than sophistication.

Chivas Brothers Glenallachie 15 Years Old, Cask Strength Edition
Single Malt - Scotland - 58.00% 8 Perhaps too sweet for some malt lovers but packed with flavour. Bland it ain't.

Dewar Rattray Craigellachie 1989 16 Years Old
Single Malt - Scotland - 54.70% 7 The different elements haven't been pulled together. A better cask would have given some order and control.

Dewar Rattray Highland Park 18 Years Old 1989
Single Malt - Scotland - 53.50% 7 Couldn't be more different from the other Highland Park. That's casks for you!

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...

Glen Moray 1989 Signature Malt 16 Years Old
Single Malt - Scotland - 57.60% 7 It's hard to get excited about.

Gordon & MacPhail Bunnahabhain 1989
Single Malt - Scotland - 40.00% 7 A breakfast whisky for the truly decadent.

Laphroaig Vintage, 17 Years Old
Single Malt - Scotland - 50.30% 8 An excellent mix of the rich, the sweet and the smoky. Mouthfilling and complex.

Lombard Bowmore 1989
Single Malt - Scotland - 50.00% 6 For a relatively young Bowmore, this seems somewhat tired.

Lombard Highland Park 1989
Single Malt - Scotland - 50.00% 8 Very slow, long, flavour development. Gets up to speed at the very end.

Lombard Rosebank 1989
Single Malt - Scotland - 50.00% 8 A good example. Such a love potion, from a distillery that no one loved enough to keep alive.

Mackillop's Choice Caol Ila 1989, Cask 3322
Single Malt - Scotland - 57.70% 7 If Caol Ila can evoke the aroma and flavour of junipers, perhaps it can also suggest olive oil, vine leaves, couscous, baked aubergines. I have had great martinis in Tangier. Next time, a Caol Ila Sou...

Miyagikyo 22 Years Old 1986 Single Cask
Single Malt - Japan - 63.00% 8 The soft juicy Miyagikyo shows its darkside.

Montgomerie's The Macallan 1989 Single Cask
Single Malt - Scotland - 46.00% 7 Macallan in disguise. Impossible to recognise blind. So unusual but really attractive.

Murray McDavid Caol Ila 1989
Single Malt - Scotland - 62.70% 8 On the light side, but with some delicacy and complexity.

Nikka All Malt 1989
Blended - Japan - 43.00% 7 An interesting idea, and it produces for Nikka a much sweeter style of whisky.

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 Masters Clynelish 1989
Single Malt - Scotland - 59.10% 7 Very much in line with recent bottlings. Not especially peaty, but crisp, clean and decisive in it's flavours.

Scott's Selection North British 1989 22 Years Old
Single Grain - Scotland - 54.00% 7 Definitely on the sweet side. The alcohol is well mastered. A bit uni-dimensional though. Water does not bring out much more.

Signatory Caol Ila 1989
Single Malt - Scotland - 46.00% 8 A fine example of Caol Ila – in one of its peatier moods.

Signatory Caol Ila 1989, Cask Strength
Single Malt - Scotland - 58.30% 8 The more typical of the two 1989 versions. For me, classic Caol Ila, with a touch of peat, noses ahead of the fruitier, more sensuous, expression.

Signatory Clynelish 1989 South African Sherry Butt
Single Malt - Scotland - 58.70% 7 A very unusual expression of Clynelish.

Signatory Cragganmore 1989
Single Malt - Scotland - 55.70% 7 Not very old, but was the cask a little tired?

Signatory Mortlach 1989 Unchillfiltered
Single Malt - Scotland - 46.00% 8 The most complex and structured of the Mortlachs in this tasting.

Signatory Rosebank 1989
Single Malt - Scotland - 43.00% 6 With its curiously greeny-white colour, this one actually looks like a ghost. A shadow of a great malt.

Signatory Tormore 1989
Single Malt - Scotland - 43.00% 7 Wood has the word in the finish. An assertive Speysider to enjoy after dinner.

Springbank 1989, Limited Edition Limburg Festival Bottling
Single Malt - Scotland - 55.80% 9 Springbank in pyrotechnic form. The sherry doubles the flavours, but arguably also softens the Campbeltown character.

The Balvenie PortWood 1989
Single Malt - Scotland - 40.00% 7 Not the depth of the PortWood 21 Years Old, but thoroughly enjoyable.

The Glenrothes 1989
Single Malt - Scotland - 43.00% 8 A whisky for a reverie. Daydream of childhood and the local sweet-shop.

The Macallan 1989, Exceptional Cask V
Single Malt - Scotland - 59.20% 8 Lovely pinkish mahogany colour. Big esters, together with alcohol, balance a surprising degree of woodiness. Drinks older than it is. Another fogeyish bottling.

Wilson & Morgan Macduff 1989 Port Finish
Single Malt - Scotland - 46.00% 7 My guess is that the whisky was initially less rich and malty than the "official" Glen Deveron bottlings. The port finish adds some roundness and interest.

Yoichi Single Cask, 1989
Single Malt - Japan - 60.80% 7 Again, very fruity, but lacking in other flavours.