 
ISLAY:At least a quarter of the island's surface is covered with peat and Islay malts are renowned for their phenolic, iodine, seaweed-like qualities. (Scotch Malt Whisky Society) ARDBEG 10 Years Old (L?) Legless Scotsman's rating: 9+ (94 points) (Nose 24 points: earthy, smoky / Taste 24 points: smoky, peaty, full-bodied / Finish 23 points: long finish / Balance 23 points.) 10 Years Old (L7 323 14:11 14ML) Legless Scotsman's rating: 8.5 (85 points) (Colour: white wine / Nose 21 points: smoky, peaty, sea, seaweed / Taste 21 points: smoky, peaty, musty, full-bodied / Finish 22 points: long and smoky finish / Balance 22 points.) 10 Years Old, Mor (L8, 4.5L bottle) Legless Scotsman's rating: 8.5 (85 points) (Colour: white wine / Nose 21 points: smoky, peaty, sea, seaweed / Taste 21 points: smoky, peaty, musty, full-bodied / Finish 22 points: long and smoky finish / Balance 22 points.) Aged 11 Years, d 7/1998, c #1037/1039, 1053/1062, 1960/1961, 1972/1973, number of bottles 5076, b 10/2009, 46% (Chieftain's, Ian MacLeod) Legless Scotsman's rating: 9- (89 points) (Colour: pale gold / Nose 23 points: smoky, tar, peat, smooth / Taste 22 points: full-bodied, smooth, smoky, tar, tervapastilli / Finish 22 points: long, smoky and tarry finish / Balance 22 points.) Ardbeg 1975, d 1975, b 2003 (Connoisseurs Choice, Gordon & McPhail) Legless Scotsman's rating: 8.5 (85 points) (Colour: amber / Nose 21 points: blueberry, smoky, soft, peaty / Taste 21 points: medium-bodied, smoky, oaky / Finish 23 points: long finish / Balance 20 points.) Ardbeg 1996, Aged 10 Years, d 10/1996, b 10/2006, 50%, one refill Hogshead DL Ref 3058, 1/331 bottles (Old Malt Cask, Douglas & Lang) Legless Scotsman's rating: 9 (91 points) (Colour: amber / Nose 21 points: smoky, spicy, not too strong / Taste 23 points: full-bodied, smoky, charred log, tar / Finish 24 points: long and very nice burning tarry log finish / Balance 23 points.) Airigh Nam Beist Legless Scotsman's rating: 9 (91 points) (Colour: pale gold / Nose 23 points: smoky, smoke-sauna, full-bodied, peaty / Taste 22 points: full-bodied, medium complexity, smoky, salty / Finish 23 points: smoky, long finish / Balance 23 points.) Almost there, d 1998, 3rd release 2007, 54.1% (1998-2008) Legless Scotsman's rating: 9- (89 points) (Colour: white wine / Nose 22 points: smoky, moss, burnt heather / Taste 21 points: full-bodied, smoky, peat, oily / Finish 23 points: long and burned finish / Balance 22 points.) Blasda, 40% Legless Scotsman's rating: 8+ (83 points) (Colour: cider / Nose 21 points: sweet, floral, winey, salty, hint of smoke / Taste 20 points: spicy, malty, medim-bodied / Finish 21 points: medium, tobacco finish / Balance 21 points.) Corryvreckan, 57.1% Legless Scotsman's rating: 9 (90 points) (Colour: pale amber / Nose 23 points: soft smokyness, fruity / Taste 23 points: full-bodied, smoky, strong, salmiac, seaweed, water brings fruitiness / Finish 22 points: long, smoky and fruity finish / Balance 22 points.) Renaissance Legless Scotsman's rating: 6- (59 points) (Colour: white wine / Nose 14 points: neo amisept, slightly smoky, light-bodied, disappointing. After water: peaty scents coming up / Taste 15 points: medium-bodied, smoky, medicine. After water: became very disappointing, no taste at all / Finish 15 points: short finish / Balance 15 points.) Rollercoaster, Committee 10th Anniversary Edition, 1997-2006, 57.3% Legless Scotsman's rating: 9 (90 points) (Colour: cider / Nose 24 points: soft and mellow smoke, band-aid, bonfire, burning log / Taste 22 points: full-bodied, smoky, sea, seaweed / Finish 22 points: smoky and long finish / Balance 22 points. Smooth whisky.) Supernova, 58.9% Legless Scotsman's rating: 9+ (93 points) (Nose 25 points: peaty, sauna stove, ether, very smooth / Taste 22 points: full-bodied, smooth peat, smoky, tobacco / Finish 23 points: long and smoky finish / Balance 23 points. Don't need water!) Uigeadail Legless Scotsman's rating: 9+ (93 points) (Colour: gold / Nose 23 points: very smoky, band-aid, sea, full-bodied / Taste 23 points: smoky, peaty, full-bodied, salty, sea (rocks on the beach) / Finish 23 points: long and smoky finish / Balance 24 points.) BOWMORE Aged 8 Years, 43% Legless Scotsman's rating: 8.5 (87 points) (Colour: pale amber / Nose 22 points: smoky, woody, medicine / Taste 21 points: full-bodied, smoky, medicine, tobacco, nutty, spicy / Finish 22 points: smoky, long finish / Balance 22 points.) Aged 10 Years, Tempest, Small batch release, b 2009, First fill bourbon, batch no 1, 55.3% Legless Scotsman's rating: 9 (91 points) (Colour: gold / Nose 23 points: smooth, smoky, old books, fruity after water / Taste 23 points: full-bodied, smoky, bananas after water / Finish 22 points: smoky, fruity and long finish / Balance 23 points.) Aged 12 Years, 43% Legless Scotsman's rating: 8 (82 points) (Colour: cooking oil / Nose 20 points: salty, sea, scents of smoke and peat, aniseed, leather. Quite closed scents / Taste 21 points: salmiac, medium-bodied, salty / Finish 21 points: salty, salmiac, medium finish / Balance 20 points.) Aged 12 Years, Enigma, 40% Legless Scotsman's rating: 9- (89 points) (Colour: dark brown, caramelized sugar / Nose 22 points: mellow medicine, peaty, salty, fudge, sea climate, licorice / Taste 23 points: full-bodied, smoky, burning logs, fire, woody / Finish 22 points: medium and smoky finish / Balance 22 points.) 15 Years Old, 43% Legless Scotsman's rating: 8+ (84 points) (Colour: syrup / Nose 22 points: winey, medicine / Taste 21 points: full-bodied, medicine / Finish 20 points: medium finish / Balance 21 points.) 15 Years Old, Darkest Legless Scotsman's rating: 9- (88 points) (Colour: dark roasted sugar / Nose 22 points: smoky, hint of sweetness, oily, salty, cucumber / Taste 22 points: full-bodied, sherry, chocolate / Finish 22 points: smoky, long finish / Balance 22 points.) Aged 16 Years, d 1992, Wine cask matured (Bordeaux), Vintage Limited Edition, 53.5% Legless Scotsman's rating: 9 (92 points) (Colour: caramelized sugar / Nose 23 points: sweet, salty, oranges, smoky, citrus, gun powder / Taste 23 points: full-bodied, oranges, sweets, barley, woody / Finish 23 points: long and sweet finish / Balance 23 points.) 17 Years Old, 43% Legless Scotsman's rating: 8+ (84 points) (Colour: cooking oil / Nose 22 points: smoky, peaty, hot / Taste 21 points: very strong tar taste (reminds me of Tervaleijona pastille's), anise, peaty / Finish 23 points: long, smoky finish / Balance 18 points.) Aged 18 Years Legless Scotsman's rating: 9+ (94 points) (Colour: pale amber / Nose 24 points: very smoky and peaty, citrus, medicine, saltwater, band-aid, sap / Taste 24 points: full-bodied, smoky, peaty, salty, burnt log, citrus / Finish 23 points: long and peaty finish / Balance 23 points.) Darkest Sherry Casked Legless Scotsman's rating: 8 (80 points) (Colour: sunset / Nose 20 points: smoky, sherry / Taste 21 points: smoky, woody, hint of caramel, hint of sherry / Finish 20 points: medium finish / Balance 19 points.) Dawn, Port Casked, 51.5% Legless Scotsman's rating: 9 (92 points) (Colour: red amber / Nose 23 points: ether, smoky, band-aid, smoked kipper, peaty. After water: wet dirt, tar / Taste 23 points: smoky, strong chili like biting a chili plant, full-bodied, moss, winey / Finish 23 points: long and smoky finish, just lingers on / Balance 23 points.) Bowmore 1996, Aged 10 Years, d 6/1996, b 11/2006, 1/356 bottles, 50%, Old Malt Cask, Douglas Laing) Legless Scotsman's rating: 8.5 (86 points) (Colour: pale amber / Nose 23 points: winey, port, cognac, hint of smoke / Taste 21 points: full-bodied, winey, medicine, toffee, oaky, woody / Finish 21 points: long and winey / Balance 21 points. Doesn't need water!) Single Cask Bowmore 1999, distilled September 1999, bottled September 2006, Sherry Butt cask, 46% (Eilan Gillan) Legless Scotsman's rating: 9- (89 points) (Colour: lemon gold / Nose 22 points: leather, medium-bodied, antiseptic, band-aid / Taste 22 points: peppery, full-bodied, smoky, hot, medium complexity, phenolig, cloves / Finish 23 points: long and peppery finish / Balance 22 points.) Vintage 1988, 16 Years Old, distilled 15.12.1998, bottled 30.6.2005, Hogshead #42509, bottle #404/417, 46% (Signatory Vintage) Legless Scotsman's rating: 9 (90 points) (Colour: almost clear / Nose 22 points: full-bodied, band-aid, smoky, peaty, sea, hint of floral scents / Taste 22 points: full-bodied, smoky, hot, medium complexity, peaty / Finish 23 points: long and smoky finish / Balance 23 points.) BRUICHLADDICH 10 Years Old Legless Scotsman's rating: 8.5 (87 points) (Colour: white wine / Nose 22 points: floral, peppery, medium-bodied, almond, kahlua / Taste 22 points: citrus, fruity, medium-bodied, medium complexity, peppery / Finish 22 points: long / Balance 21 points.) 12 Years Old, Second edition Legless Scotsman's rating: 8 (80 points) (Colour: gold / Nose 21 points: smoky, fruity, prunes / Taste 19 points: medium-bodied, sweet, slightly smoky, light complexity / Finish 21 points: sweet, medium / Balance 19 points.) 15 Years Old, Second Edition Legless Scotsman's rating: 9 (91 points) (Colour: gold / Nose 23 points: medium-bodied, sweet, fruity, calvados, toffee / Taste 23 points: medium-bodied, medium complexity, fruity, apple / Finish 22 points: medium / Balance 23 points.) XVII Years Old, 46% Legless Scotsman's rating: 9 (90 points) (Colour: gold / Nose 23 points: praline, fudge, vanilla, spicy / Taste 23 points: medium-bodied, sweet, fruity, chocolate / Finish 22 points: medium, sweet / Balance 22 points.) 20 Years Old, Third Edition Legless Scotsman's rating: 9- (89 points) (Colour: red candy / Nose 23 points: warm, sweet, fruity, full, hint of coffee / Taste 22 points: medium-bodied, sweet, fruity, hint of smoke, caramel / Finish 21 points: medium long, sweet and fruity finish / Balance 23 points. Do not add water.) Mςine Mhςr, 3rd, Second edition, 50% Legless Scotsman's rating: 9 (90 points) (Colour: gold / Nose 23 points: smoky, fruity, perfume / Taste 23 points: full-bodied, smoky, burning log, salmiac / Finish 22 points: smoky, long finish / Balance 22 points. nice mellow smokiness.) Norrie Campbell Tribute Bottling, 3D3 - 3rd Edition Legless Scotsman's rating: 9+ (94 points) (Colour: gold / Nose 24 points: full-bodied, toffee, fruity / Taste 23 points: full-bodied, hot, chili, smoky / Finish 24 points: long and hot finish / Balance 23 points.) Peat, 46% Legless Scotsman's rating: 9 (92 points) (Colour: amber / Nose 23 points: peaty, sea, salty, smoky, leather, seawater / Taste 23 points: full-bodied, salty, peaty, smoky, medicine / Finish 23 points: peaty, long / Balance 23 points.) Rock Legless Scotsman's rating: 8.5 (86 points) (Colour: copper brown / Nose 22 points: smoky, salty, malty, hint of ripe fruits, woody / Taste 21 points: full-bodied, smoky, spicy, salty, seawater, woody / Finish 22 points: salty and seaweed, long finish / Balance 21 points.) Waves, 7 Years Old Legless Scotsman's rating: 9 (91 points) (Colour: amber / Nose 22 points: smoky, earthy, peaty, seaweed / Taste 23 points: full-bodied, smoky, peaty, salty, medium complexity, oily, salami / Finish 23 points: long, smoky / Balance 23 points.) Waves (NAS) Legless Scotsman's rating: 9 (91 points) (Colour: amber / Nose 23 points: smoky, seaweed, peaty, sea, salty / Taste 22 points: salty, smoky, full-bodied / Finish 23 points: long, smoky / Balance 23 points.) Port Charlotte PC6, Cuairt-Beatha, Aged 6 Years in oak casks, distilled 2001, bottled 2007, 61.?% Legless Scotsman's rating: 9- (88 points) (Colour: gold / Nose 21 points: sweet, fruity, slightly smoky, malty, biscuity / Taste 22 points: full-bodied, perfumed, woody, slightly smoky, hot / Finish 23 points: long / Balance 22 points.) Bruichladdich 1970, b# 258, d 16.11.1970, b 1/2000, cask #4781, 45.8% (Mackillop's Choice) Legless Scotsman's rating: 8 (82 points) (Colour: pale gold / Nose 22 points: mild, sweet, fruity, floral / Taste 20 points: medium-bodied, sweet, honey, floral / Finish 20 points: medium long, sweet and nutty finish / Balance 20 points.) Bruichladdich 1998, Aged 10 Years, Sherry edition, 46%, aged in sherry wood, Manzanilla, Jerez Legless Scotsman's rating: 9- (88 points) (Colour: / Nose 22 points: medicine, winey, sherry, toffee / Taste 22 points: full-bodied, winey, sherry / Finish 22 points: long and sherry / Balance 22 points.) BUNNAHABHAIN Aged 12 Years Legless Scotsman's rating: 9+ (93 points) (Colour: sunset/amber / Nose 23 points: smoky, full-bodied, oily, nutty, sweet, peaty / Taste 23 points: salty, smoky, iodine, strong complexity, woody, full-bodied, caramel / Finish 24 points: long and smoky / Balance 23 points.) Aged 18 Years Legless Scotsman's rating: 7.5 (77 points) (Colour: dark brown / Nose 20 points: cognac, sweet, alcohol, leather / Taste 18 points: sweet, pale, medium-bodied, one-sided / Finish 20 points: medium and sweet / Balance 19 points. Quite a disappoinment.) Bunnahabhain Vintage 1997, 9 Years Old, distilled 1.12.1997, bottled 19.1.2007, matured at refill butts, cask #5266, bottle #675/833, 46% (Signatory Vintage) Legless Scotsman's rating: 9- (89 points) (Colour: amber / Nose 21 points: smoky, iodine, peaty, sea, salty, leather, rubbery after adding water / Taste 23 points: smoky, tar, medicine, full-bodied, salty / Finish 23 points: long and smoky / Balance 22 points.) CAOL ILA Aged 12 Years, 43% Legless Scotsman's rating: 9+ (94 points) (Colour: white wine. Nose 23 points: earthy, oily, smoky, sea, hint of peat and tar / Taste 24 points: salty, peppery, smoky / Finish 24 points: spicy, long finish / Balance 23 points. Beautiful scent of smoke hit my nose immediately after removing the cork.) Caol Ila 1988, Cognac Wood Finish, distilled 26.10.1988, bottled 8/2000, bottle #0883/3100 (Private Collection, Gordon & McPhail) Legless Scotsman's rating: 9 (91 points) (Colour: white wine / Nose 23 points: smoky, full-bodied, sea, antiseptic / Taste 23 points: full-bodied, sea, salty, smoky, peaty / Finish 22 points: long finish / Balance 23 points.) Caol Ila 1990, 10 Years Old (Connoisseurs Choice, Gordon & McPhail) Legless Scotsman's rating: 8- (79 points) (Nose 20 points: medicine / Taste 19 points: light-bodied / Finish 20 points: good finish / Balance 20 points.) KILCHOMAN Inaugural Release, 46% Legless Scotsman's rating: 8.5 (86 points) (Colour: white wine / Nose 22 points: very smoky, burning log / Taste 21 points: Tervaleijona -pastilles, full-bodied, smoky, phenolig / Finish 22 points: long and smoky finish / Balance 21 points. Nice but still quite unfinished.) Autumn 2009 Release, 46% Legless Scotsman's rating: 9- (89 points) (Colour: gold, orange caramel / Nose 23 points: smoky, fire, fruity, band-aid / Taste 22 points: full-bodied, burning log, fruity / Finish 22 points: long and smoky finish / Balance 22 points) Kilchoman Single Cask Release, c 2006/81, Bourbon, d 31.5.2006, b 25.1.2010, 61.7% Legless Scotsman's rating: 9 (91 points) (Colour: white wine / Nose 23 points: smooth, smoky, nice / Taste 22 points: full-bodied, smooth, smoky / Finish 23 points: long and long finish / Balance 23 points) Bottled exclusively for Germany, cask 363/06, bourbon, d 20.12.2006, b 29.3.2010, single cask release, 60.3% Legless Scotsman's rating: 8.5 (87 points) (Colour: white wine / Nose 22 points: tar, cooked vegetables, leather after water / Taste 21 points: full-bodied, tar / Finish 22 points: long and tarry finish / Balance 22 points) Kilchoman New Spirit, d 23.4.2008, b 26.9.2008, Bourbon cask, Peaty level 50 (ppm), Barley variety optic, 63.5% (Colour: Vodka / Nose: old socks, cigar / Taste: strong, burnt barley) LAGAVULIN Aged 16 Years Legless Scotsman's rating: 9 (91 points) (Colour: blurry, straw / Nose 23 points: spicy, grassy, peaty, sea, sharp, medium-bodied / Taste 22 points: medium/full-bodied, smoky, peaty, iodine, salty, tobacco, coffee / Finish 22 points: Long/medium finish / Balance 24 points.) Aged 25 Years Legless Scotsman's rating: 10- (98 points) (Nose 24 points: seaweed, salty / Taste 25 points: smoky, peaty / Finish 24 points: Long, beautiful finish / Balance 25 points.) Distiller's Edition, distilled 1989, bottled 2005, double matured, Special Release Limited Edition Lgv. 4/493, Pedro Ximenez cask wood Legless Scotsman's rating: 9 (91 points) (Colour: dark amber / Nose 23 points: praline, sweet, mildly smoky, band-aid, salami / Taste 23 points: full-bodied, sweet, peaty / Finish 22 points: Long finish / Balance 23 points.) LAPHROAIG 10 Years Old, 40% Legless Scotsman's rating: 10- (97 points) (Colour: amber / Nose 24 points: full-bodied, strong, earthy, spicy, hot, oily, peaty, smoky, tar / Taste 24 points: full-bodied, smoky, salty, peaty, tobacco, earthy, hot, pine / Finish 24 points: Long, beautiful, smoky finish / Balance 25 points.) 10 Years Old, original cask strength 57.3% Legless Scotsman's rating: 9 (92 points) (Nose 23 points: earthy, peaty / Taste 23 points: smoky, peaty / Finish 23 points / Balance 23 points.) 15 Years Old, 43% Legless Scotsman's rating: 9 (91 points) (Colour: amber / Nose 23 points: smoky, peaty, iodine, sea, leather, water surfaces oranges / Taste 22 points: smoky, peaty, seaweed, salty, salmiac / Finish 24 points: beautiful smoky finish / Balance 22 points.) 18 Years Old Legless Scotsman's rating: 9- (89 points) (Colour: gold / Nose 23 points: peaty, smoky, seawater, seaweed, fruity, tobacco / Taste 22 points: smoky, peaty, full-bodied, sea, salty / Finish 22 points: smoky & long / Balance 22 points.) Quarter Cask Legless Scotsman's rating: 9+ (93 points) (Colour: hay / Nose 23 points: smoky, soft, sea, salty, full-bodied / Taste 22 points: smoky, peaty, salty, full-bodied, full complexity, oily, biscuity, sawdust / Finish 23 points: long and smoky finish / Balance 24 points.) PORT ELLEN Aged 24 Years, distilled November 1982, bottled August 2007, bottle #183/228, filled from one sherry butt 3652, no chill filtered, no colouring, "Finnish edition", 50% (Douglas Laing & Co) Legless Scotsman's rating: 9+ (93 points) (Colour: amber / Nose 23 points: strong, full-bodied, smoky, peaty, sharp / Taste 23 points: full-bodied, strong complexity, smoky, peaty, tobacco, woody, salty / Finish 23 points: long smoky finish / Balance 24 points.) UNSPECIFIED SINGLE MALTS SMOKEHEAD Legless Scotsman's rating: 9+ (92 points) (Colour: cooking oil / Nose 23 points: smoky, full-bodied, medicine, peaty / Taste 23 points: full-bodied, smoky, woody, tobacco, strong complexity / Finish 23 points: long and smoky / Balance 23 points.) |
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