Miltonduff reviews

Judging by the dark color of what is in my glass, the spirit of this Miltonduff slept on a rather active sherry cask. First fill, most likely. Anyway, it is young: distilled in 2004 and bottled after 11…

I remember trying this malt for the first time at the whisky festival in Ghent in 2014, but I was unable to score a sample at the time. I rectified this at another festival last May. And now I can sit…

C&S Dram is a German independent bottler run by Andrea Cammineci (the name reveals his Italian roots), who started out as a wine merchant in 2005. Let us try his Miltonduff 1989 from a sherry hogshead…

The Duncan Taylor Single is a series of single malts of at least 30 years or from distilleries that are no longer operational – or both. There are only 53 bottles of this 30 Year Old Miltonduff! I dis…

Venturing further into obscure distillery territory. A semi-official bottling of Miltonduff by Gordon & Macphail, that is rarely being reviewed and even then seems to divide the public in two camps.…

The Lonach series was known for vatting underproof with overproof casks to create a whisky that reached at least 40% ABV and could thus be bottled. This one was bottled at exactly 40% and is a distillate…

Miltonduff is a Speyside distilleerderij that I have only encountered once before. So I have absolutely no experience to speak of. Time to change that, but putting four distillates in a row. Let me start…

This Miltonduff has spent more than a decade in the bottle and matured for 35 years before that. It was distilled before I was born and bottled under the famous banner Old Malt Cask. Since the split of…

As I write this review we are now just a couple of days removed for Connosr’s very own Whisky and Music festival; Pure. It was quite a weekend and an undoubted success being both very well attended and…

Although the name Miltonduff is not heard often as a single malt, it is a high-capacity distillery and considered the most important component of the Ballantine’s blend. It’s one of the key plants in the…