The Glenlivet 15yo French Oak Reserve 40%

• Colour : Deep, rich and opulent 18ct Gold
• Nose : Spice, loads of oak, white pepper, caramel, toffee. With water - much creamier, toffee-banana, peaches and apricots.
• Palate : Hot, meaty, fruity, creamy citrus
• Finish : Long, creamy, fruity vanilla
• Conclusion : Class Speyside whisky, at this price (£23.52) it's amazing. Balanced and elegant.

The Master at work!

Glenmorangie 10yo 40% (fresh but older bottling)

• Colour : Pale 9ct gold

• Nose : Fruity, apples and pears, butter and creamy caramel with vanilla notes - very nice!

• Palate / Mouth : Warm (almost stinging), pear drops, vanilla and creamy butter. With water - more cream, more buttery flavours, softer

• Finish : Short-ish finish, a soft almost cloying (but comforting rather than irritating) mouth feel.

• Conclusion : I like this style of whisky, its soft and not too demanding, great to drink outside in the summer.

Jim Beam (White Label) 40%

• Colour : Medium dark copper,with almost an almost pink-ish hue.

• Nose : Vanilla, coconut, candy sugar and with water vanilla ice cream and cream soda.

• Palate : Rich, warm and creamy in the mouth. With water - opens-up with loads of vanilla, creamy pannacotta

• Conclusion : This a a great bourbon, really easy to drink, sweet but not cloying.

Mortlach 18yo, The Wine Society

• Colour : Pale 18ct Gold, Golden syrup.

• Nose : High alcoholic note, sweet fino sherry, toasted oak and peanuts. With water - more citrus / orange blossom

• Palate / Mouth : Warming alcohol, caramel and tobacco

• Conclusion : A nice warming expression, a mid-day dram, lots of citrus notes on the nose and in the mouth but plenty of sherry cask character to go with it.

Here is the review on the Wine Society website.

The Fiddlers, Drumnadrochit

Well .... we've just returned from a weeks trip to Drumnadrochit, where we enjoyed many a good dram with Jon Beach (Owner, Host and all 'round good man!).

Highlights were :-

16yr Mortlach

1968 Glen Albyn

Yamazaki Sherry Cask

21yr Aberfeldy

15yr Clynlish

18 yr Glenlivet

An old Glen Keith

17 yrs Old Pultney

12 yr Old Pultney

Wk44 Old Pultney

12 yr Singleton of Glen Ord

12 Yr Glenmoragie

And some others that I can't remember right now.