Ardmore 2003-2021 | 17 Year Old Cooper's Choice Single Cask 801285Highland Single Malt Scotch Whisky Bottled by: Cooper's Choice 70cl 48. 5% A single cask Ardmore 2003 17 year old Highland single malt whisky bottled in 2021 by indie bottlers Cooper's Choice from a single ex bourbon cask (801285) at 48. 5%, pretty much a perfect drinking strength for a whisky of this age. Islay fans who have yet to try Ardmore could do a lot worse than starting here. Expect smoked vanilla and ashy, sooty phenols all the way, but

A little water opens the citrus fruit and marine elements and brings out a little more of the coconut and vanilla notes from the oak

Darkness finish all their single malts in small octave casks made from different types of sherry butts - this cask strength Aultmore 23-year-old has been given the Oloroso sherry treatment and should be utterly delicious

Finish: Medium bodied with sweet smoke

This 1995 vintage hogshead has been bottled at cask strength of 52

particularly from distilleries of the calibre of Glenlivet - and they've been bottling whiskies of this outstanding quality for decades now

The Macallan Travel Series was a series of four different whiskies created by Macallan in 1999 to mimic the variations and development in the Macallan house style in the decades from the 1920s until the 1950s

Bottled by: Douglas Laing 70cl / 51

this is pretty grand and tasty stuff

Distilled on the 22nd October 1979 and fully matured in 1st fill Oloroso sherry casks for over 32 years

A good match for a medium cigar

blackcurrants and dried barley

Drawn from the same parcel of Oloroso sherry casks that would ultimately make up Blacker Still several years later