Here is a list of drams we have tried preceeded by a percentage. This figure represents how well the whisky fared in a consumer feedback test. Attendees at the tastings are asked for their opinion via a form giving a mark from zero (so poor the whisky deserves no points) to nine (full marks – ‘you can now die happy’). All the marks are collated and shown as a percentage of full marks.
30% Abhainn Dearg distilled 10.02.10 61.7%
53% Aberlour A’Bunadh No. 25 60.4%
62% Aberlour 27.06.95 – 12.03.10 14yo 63.3% first fill Bourbon cask
83% Amrut peated Indian single malt 62.78%
45% Amrut Fusion Indian single malt 50%
63% Amrut bottled 06/08 277 bottles 62.7% Blackadder
43% Antiquary 21yo 43%
61% Antiquary blend Early 20th century no strength stated
59% Ardbeg Rollercoaster 57.3%
76% Ardbeg Supernova 58.9%
66% Ardbeg Supernova 58.9% 100+ ppm
64% Ardbeg 1991 – 02/10 15yo 56% Bourbon hogshead 268 bottles Cadenheads
63% Ardbeg 15yo 1994 – 02/10 56.0% Bourbon hogshead 268 bottles Cadenheads
74% Ardbeg 1994 – 02/10 15yo 55.7% Bourbon hogshead 268 bottles Cadenheads
75% Ardbeg 1994 – 06/09 15yo Bourbon hogshead 284 bottles 58.1% Cadenheads
68% Ardbeg 1993 – 05/05 11yo 270 bottles Bourbon hogshead 57.4% Cadenheads
53% Ardmore 11yo 57.1% Bourbon hogshead Cadenheads
61% Ardmore 25yo 51.4%
29% Armorik French single malt 40%
61% Arran 96-09/09 13yo fino sherry hogshead 242 bottles 55.2% Cadenheads
67% ‘As We Get It’, single Islay malt, 8yo, 58% abv, Ian McLeod
68% Auchentoshan 19yo Bourbon Barrel
63% Auld Reekie 10yo Islay malt
“Baffo” Forever Edition no. 5 256 bottles 12.6.01 – 2027.3.09 7yo cask no. 48/2001 46% specially selected by Thomas Kruger
70% Bakery Hill peated single malt 60% barrel 6009
61% Ballantines 17yo 43%
37% Ballie Nicol Jarvie blend 40%
69% Banff 29yo 1976 – 06/06 52.0% Bourbon hogshead 228 bottles Cadenheads
56% Benromach 01.05.10 – 03.05.10 10yo 60.1% first fill Bourbon barrel
68% Benromach 28yo 57% Cadenheads
40% ‘Big Smoke’, Blended Islay malt, NAS, 60% abv, Duncan Taylor Limited
48% Birnie Moss ‘intensely peated’ 48% from Benriach distillery
Bowmore 1997 – 2009 11yo 57.9% 295 bottles Cadenheads
51% Bowmore same T as 19yo MWBH Bunny
68% ‘Breath of the Isles’, single cask single Islay malt, 13yo, Adelphi
74% Brora official bottling 25yo 56.3% bottled 2008 3000 bottles
60% Brora 1982 – 2008 refill sherry butts 43% Gordon & MacPhail
61% Bruichladdich Feis Ile Islay Barley 2004 Bottled 2010 57.5% fresh sherry butt
Bunnahabhain Darach Ur 46.3%
63% Bunnahabhain 19yo MWBH
75% Cambus single grain 27.7.91 – 10.9.9 18yo refill butt 664 bottles 51.9% Signatory
40% Cambus 30.03.86 – 30.03.10 24yo 54.7% Bladnoch Forum
63% Cameron Bridge single grain ?yo ?%: possibly 46% 30yo 1955 Cadenheads
63% Cameron Bridge single grain ?yo ?%: possibly 46% 30yo 1955 Cadenheads
47% Campbeltown Loch 30yo 40%
62% Caol Ila 55%
66% Caol Ila unpeated 10yo bottled 2009 65.8%
66% Caol Ila 13yo Butt Cadenheads
68% Caol Ila 1984 – 02/10 25yo Bourbon hogshead 55.2% 250 bottles Cadenheads
52% Caol Ila 13yo Bourbon hogshead Cadenheads
56% Caol Ila 11yo Golden Cask
69% Caol Ila 25yo hogshead Bladnoch Forum
42% Carn Mor Islay single malt
50% Canadian Indian corn distilled at Potters Distilling Co., Kelowna, B.C., 11yo 55.1% Cadenheads
43% Canadian Indian corn distilled at Potters Distilling Company, Kelowna, B.C., bottled 2000 Bourbon barrel 54.9% 360 bottles
62% Chichibu Newborn Japanese malt whisky spirit cask 127 distilled and bottled 2008 62.5%
46% Chivas Regal 25yo 40%
34% Glen Calder 40% blend Gordon & MacPhail
34% ‘Clan Denny vatted malt’ Caol Ila, Laphroaig, Bowmore & Bunnahabhain
70% Clynelish 14yo 46% sherry wood Duthies
64% Clynelish distiller’s edition 46% seco38% Dewars 12yo blend 43%
78% Convalmore 30yo 1977 – 09/07 61.6% butt 240 bottles Cadenheads
52% Cutty Sark 18yo blend 43%
68% Cutty Sark 25YO 46.7%
58% Dalmore 21yo 43%
36% Duthies Islay blended malt
32% ‘DYC’ blend 8yo 40%
43% Forty Creek Barrel Select Canadian 40%
52% ‘Frasers Reserve’ single Islay malt 40%
33% Frysk Hynder Holland 40%
67% Garnheath single grain 35yo 55.5% 180 50cl bottles Wood Winters
52% ‘Ginkgo’ vatted malt 46%
54% Glendronach 18yo Bourbon hogshead
73% Glen Elgin 30yo Bourbon hogshead
77% Glenfiddich 32yo 46.9% Cadenheads
77% Glenfiddich 32yo 46.9% Cadenheads
74% Glenglassaugh 17.12.76 28yo 254 bottles 50.8% Dormant Distillery Company
55% Glenisla 1877 28yo hogshead 48.6%
41% Glenkeir Treasures 40% (2 malts vatted: The Whisky Shop)
51% Glen Keith 1968 46% (triple distilled) Gordon & MacPhail
61% Glenlossie-Glenlivet 14yo port hogshead
71% Glenlossie March 1978 – September 2007 46% refill sherry hogsheads Gordon & MacPhail
58% Glen Mhor 1982 – 02/10 27yo 56.8% sherry cask 236 bottles Cadenheads
58% Glenrothes 1990 – 05/06 15yo butt 582 bottles 59.5% Cadenheads
50% Glenrozelieures French single malt 40%
33% Glentauchers 2006 – 2009 46% barrel 921 20cl bottles Carn Mor
36% Grenore 15yo Irish single grain 43%
76% Hazelburn 7yo 2001-06/09 4 small casks 316 bottles Cadenheads
73% Hazelburn 12yo 46%
65% Heaven Hill Bourbon 13yo 61.6% 177 bottles Cadenheads
39% Hibiki 12yo Japanese blend 43%
58% Highland Park 1992 – 06/09 17yo 64.0% butt 512 bottles Cadenheads
50% Highland Park 25yo 50.7%
38% Highland Park 17yo 46% Duthies
59% Highland Park 06.92-09.08 16yo Calvados cask finish 46% Alchemist
50% Highland Park 1973-2009 43% 1st fill sherry butt Gordon & MacPhail
49% Highland Park 1992 46% 14yo Bourbon/Chateau Lafite Murray McDavid
64% Highland Park Earl Magnus 1st ed. 15yo 52.6%
64% ‘Ileach’, single Islay malt, NAS, 58.0%, Highlands & Islands Scotch Whisky Co.Ltd.
71% Imperial 17/4/97 – 12/3/10 61.6% first fill sherry butt Gordon & MacPhail
55% Imperial 29yo Cadenheads
61% Inchgower 1993 – 2009 16yo 61.9% Bodega sherry cask
78% Invergordon 19.12.72 – 06.04.09 36yo 41.6% Bladnoch Forum
61% Inverleven 1987 – 05/06 18yo 57.9% Bourbon hogshead 276 bottles Cadenheads
60% ‘Islay’, single Islay malt, 5yo, 58.4%, Signatory Vintage
40% Islay Storm single malt 40%
John Scott Millar 38yo blend (Highland Park and Invergordon)
52% Jura Prophecy year 1 ‘”profoundly peated” 46%
Karuizawa 1972 – 2008 65% 529 bottles
67% Kilchoman Inaugural release 46%
58% Kilchoman autumn 2009 release 46%
29% Kilkerran work in process batch 2 46%
46% Kilkerran (2009 release) 46%
35% King of Scots 25yo blend 40%
53% Kornog Taouarc’h Eilvet 09 peated French single malt 3yo 46%
63% (Ladyburn) Rare Ayrshire 21/2/1975 – 2/3/9 34yo 45.2% Bourbon barrel 166 bottles Signatory
77% Lagavulin 18.10.95 – 2009 54.4% European oak bottled for Feis ILe 2009
82% Lagavulin 12yo
73% Lagavulin 12yo cask strength 2009 release
Laos : ‘whisky’
50% Laphroaig S.M.W.S. 29.82 10yo refill Bourbon hogshead 56.5% 297 bottles
59% Laphroaig Cairdeas (11yo to 19yo) 2010 Feis Ile 57.3%
85% Laphroaig 1998-09/2009 11yo 61.3% Bourbon hogshead 248 bottles Cadenheads
69% Laphroaig Cairdeas55% Macallan The Golden Cask 1992 – 2005 291 bottles 56.8%
50% (Laphroaig) SMWS 29.82 297 bottles 10yo 56.5% refill Bourbon hogshead
38% Lark single malt Tasmanian 43%
56% Linkwood-Glenlivet 1989 – 02/10 20yo 55.4% port cask 256 bottles Cadenheads
45% Littlemill 1991 – 10/09 18yo Bourbon barrel 240 bottles 58.5% Cadenheads
75% Longrow 08.01 – 20.05.10 8yo 58.5% 414 bottles shiraz hogshead
76% Longrow 7yo 55.8% (1 1/2 years in Gaja Barolo red wine casks)
65% Longrow Tasting Room 45.9%
29% Lot No.40 Canadian 43%
53% Macallan Scott’s Selection 1985 – 2006 53.0%
69% Macallan S.M.W.S. 24.104 18yo 1st fill sherry butt 612 bottles 56.9%
92% Macallan 1958 80 degrees proof (45.7%) 26 2/3 fluid ounces
76% Macallan official cask strength bottling 58.5% (now discontinued)
74% Macallan 1987 – 10/08 20yo sherry butt 282 bottles 53.2% Cadenheads
45% Macduff 1989 – 05.05 16yo 59.8% butt 678 bottles Cadenheads
59% McLeod’s single Islay malt 8yo
68%/74% Millburn 31yo 1974 – 05/06 52.3% Bourbon hogshead 246 bottles Cadenheads
28% Millstone 05.00 – 24.02.09 8yo Dutch single Malt 40% from Zuidam distillery French oak
39% Miltonduff 10yo 40% Gordon & MacPhail
42% Mitchells Blend 40%
32% Mitchells Blend 40%
52% Mortlach 21yo 46% Duthies
59% Mortlach 1994 55.1% Golden Cask
52% Mortlach 5.8.91-10.3.9 17yo sherry butt 46% Signatory
76% Mortlach Flora & Fauna 16yo 43%
91% Mortlach 1954-2008 40% Gordon & MacPhail
86% 1937-1987 50yo single Speyside malt (Macallan?) 50yo Gordon & MacPhail
75% ‘No.3 Bond’- vatted Campbeltown malt, NAS, 55.8%, Wm. Cadenhead
48%/80%/ ‘No.3 Bond’, Vatted Islay malt, bottled in shop May 2008, NAS, 56.6% abv, Wm. Cadenhead
75% Octomore 2 62.5% 140 ppm 5yo 15000 bottles
PC5 6038 bottles 2001 – 2006, 5yo 63.5% mix of bourbon and sherry casks
PC6 18000 bottles 2001 – 2007, 6yo 61.6% “Madeira cask influence”
PC7 24000 bottles 2001 – 2008 7yo 61%
PC8 25650 bottles 2001 – 2009 8yo 60.5%
71% PC8 60.5% 40ppm
60% Peat Monster
19% Penderyn Welsh single malt 43% “lightly peated’
33% Pride of Islay malt 12yo 40% Gordon & MacPhail
46% Port Ellen September 1982 – September 2009 refill sherry casks 43% Gordon & MacPhail
88% Port Ellen Golden Cask
Port Sgioba (Gaelic for Port Charlotte) 286 bottles 6.12.01 – 2.3.10 8yo cask no. 826/2001 66.0% refill sherry hogshead specially selected by FOAH
Pulteney 1990 -2009 18yo 57.2% 217 bottles Cadenheads
51% Pulteney 1990 – 02.06.2010 19yo 57.4% Bourbon cask
75% Rosebank 1989-6/09 20yo Bourbon hogshead 269 bottles 52.1% Cadenheads
70% Royal Brackla 1976 – 11/6 30yo 53.6% Sherry hogshead 126 bottles Cadenheads
54% Royal Brackla 1976 – 11/6 30yo 53.6% Sherry hogshead 126 bottles Cadenheads
34% ‘Royal Stewart’ 12yo 40% (bottled 1980s)
82% Royal Brackla 1992-06/09 16yo Bourbon barrel 183 bottles 54.7% Cadenheads
68% Royal Brackla 30yo 1976 – 11/06 53.6% Sherry hogshead 126 bottles Cadenheads
Saint George’s single malt 1st fill Bourbon 25.10 – 27.8.9 46%
27% Sheep Dip Old Hebridean 1990 40% Ardbeg+Dalmore+Fettercairn
64% Signatory single Islay malt 5yo
37% ‘Six Isles’ blended malt (Islay, Jura, Skye, Mull, Orkney and Arran) 43%
47% Small Concern 10yo 57.9% Tasmania Cadenheads
43% Smokehead 18yo Islay single malt
38% ‘Smokehead’ single malt 43%
20% Snow Grouse 40%
60% Speyburn 09/77 – 12/07 43% refill sherry butt Gordon & MacPhail
74% Springbank 10yo ’100 proof’ 57%
72% Springbank 06/97 – 01/09 11yo Madiera wood 55.1% 2090 bottles
43% Springbank 12.89 – 11.05 15yo 275 bottles 52% Glenkeir Treasures
56% Springbank (27.72) SMWS 05.96 12yo refill hogshead 292 bottles
70% Springbank 26.11.93 – 16.03.07 13yo refill sherry cask 563 bottles 58.7% Speciality Drinks Ltd.
54% Springbank 1991 – 2003 58.5% Lombard
Springbank 18yo (2009 release) 46%
55% Springbank 2001 – 02/10 8yo 58.5% cognac cask 625 bottles Cadenheads
59% Springbank CV 46%
62% Springbank 12yo cask strength 54.6%
78% Springbank 12yo Claret wood expression 54.4%
57% Springbank 12yo Claret wood expression 54.4%
65% Springbank 18yo 46%
Springbank private bottling 1996-2009 13yo fresh sherry hogshead 56%
Spinnaker single cask German single malt 50.1%
53% Stranahan’s single malt batch No.34 47%
39% Super Nikka 43% Japanese blend
29% The English Whisky Co. Chapter 2 29.7.8-15.9.8 new spirit 46% 50ppm
28% The English Whisky Company Chapter 6 batch 2 3yo 1st fill Bourbon casks 46%
34% The Ileach single malt 40%
53% ‘The Ileach’ 12yo single malt 43%
32% ‘The Peat Chimney’ Wemyss Vintage Malts blended malt 43%
30% ‘The Pibroch’ 12yo single Islay malt 43%
62% The Whisky Exchange 25yo blend 40%
67% Tomatin 1994 – 07/10 16yo sherry cask 277 bottles 53.6% Cadenheads
56% Tomintoul 10yo 40%
28% malted oat 42%
51% Warengheim French blend 40%
42% ‘Wholly Smoke’ blended malt 10yo
70% Whyte & Mackay 25yo
42% Woodford Resrve weet mash Bourbon 43.2%
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This site gives an on-line presence to Jolly Toper Tastings. The tastings exist to allow established and new whisky drinkers to try rare, obscure, expensive but primarily good drams that otherwise might be difficult to track down, afford and taste. Beyond this the bespoke tastings offer the chance to commission a tasting for your own needs. As the site matures we hope to add a picture gallery and other features. In the meantime- dram on!