Glenrothes 13 Year Old Halloween Edition 2019Speyside Single Malt Scotch WhiskyDistillery Bottling 70cl 46. 6% An old bottle of Glenrothes 13 year old Halloween Edition. This is the 2019 version of this popular but short lived bottling, released without colouring at 46. 6%. Glenrothes 13 year old Halloween Edition was only bottled in 2018 and 2019 only, and is a special edition including whisky matured in 'peaty casks' which most likely means ex Islay but could also theoretically be from one of

dried plums and blackberries

This example is one of the early releases from the late 1980s / early 1990s

Nose: The heady initial nose sees a rooty

Colour: deep gold

a white port pipe (a large cask with tapering ends used almost exclusively for port) and yielded a generous total of 710 bottles at its sturdy natural cask strength of 56

the Macallan Travel Series bottlings are interesting and delicious variants on the modern house style

Country Scotland Region Speyside Distilled Year 1962 Bottling Year 2011 Cask Type Sherry Hogshead Cask Number 2648 Bottles Produced 135 Bottle Size 70cl ABV 49

6% and those 40ppm punch well above their weight - there's a lot of phenolic power here

singed orange peel and soft char notes build

Beautiful whisky

The 10-year-old Ledaig heavily-peated single malt whisky from Tobermory Distillery was introduced in 2007 and like many single malt whisky fans we were knocked out when we first tried it

Given the distillation era and the general reputation of Springbank at the time there is no reason to think this should be anything other than fantastic