1992 Berrys' Own Selection Glen Scotia

From one of the three remaining distilleries in Campbeltown, this 16 year old malt offers a nose of dark toffee, violets and brine with the succulence cut by distant smoke and air dried ham as hints of carbolic soap drift through.  An unctuous and jammy palate delivers some late summer fruit and stewed prunes which mingle with cinnamon, cloves and oak on a lingering finish

A heavy weighty plug of dry peat: almost certainly the moss here was cut from very deep in the trench…a to-die-for delivery: the sweetness proffers a wonderful sharpness, natural caramels are light and attracts rich barley…and then of course, that dull throbbing smoke…Spices which have formed in the middle ground have a louder say and the deftly sweetened vanilla see us out. Here’s a peaty nugget! I bet Berrys’ own Dougie McIvor made a pact with the devil for his beloved Charlton to be relegated to their natural place in the third tier of the English football in exchange for getting hold of a cask like this. A good bit of business!
(95/100 points - Jim Murray’s – The Whisky Bible – 2010)