Table of Single Malt Whiskies

NOTE: this page is outdated. I put it off my site two times but was urged by users to make it available again.
Please see our current whisky pages: the description of our Scotland trip and the report about the visited distilleries.

These are the Single Malts that we have at home currently and that we like to taste and evaluate carefully. Sitting in the winter garden, above us the dark sky with moon and stars or clouds, raining or snowing.
Some good whisky books and some Single Malt tasting glasses on the table... and in the glasses? Three or four different Singles selected from the table below, waiting to be enjoyed.

Currently I have some Riedel Single Malt glasses of the VINUM and SOMMELIER series, and,
even more interesting, I have a series of tasting glasses, made by Thom Feichtner while my wife and me were present, and my wife tested each variation of the evolving form of the glasses, until all smelling and tasting components developed fully and harmonically.
This glass-making session was quite an experience, even though I was not allowed to taste (I had to drive the car) but I did nose and it was great.

In the meantime we have tasted most of our collection out of the new glasses, and we think that the different glasses make up an experience of its own. I think the influence on nose is more important than that on taste.

We also experimented with adding water, dropwise and more, and found this not to be an exciting thing. (Maybe our water is not good enough.) We will stay with the pure-whisky drinking style... no water, no ice, no anything.

Score Values

Score ratings are of course very subjective and may change from day to day. You might have quite different experiences. Therefore the mentioning of score ratings is rather controversy - but then, I still like to discuss such numbers, meaningful or not!
Here, 0 means awful and 100 means the absolutely best.
The MJ reference score was taken from the book:
"Michael Jackson's Malt Whisky Companion"

My advice:

Don't take the numbers serious, don't take offend, just be encouraged to taste the whiskies again yourself and see how you would score each...
Any Single Malt is simply very good in its own way! They are "Single" Malts, in this sense too.

Click on the name of a whisky in the table below to go to its page.

No.	Name	Age, Spec.	Origin	M.Jackson score	am Score	rm Score
1	Aberlour	10 years	Speyside (Highlands)	83	80	85
2	Ardbeg	10 years 46%	Islay	85
3	Balvenie	12 years Double Wood	Speyside	87		80
4	Balvenie	15 years Single Barrel 47.8%	Speyside	85
5	Bowmore	Legend	Islay (Loch Indaal)	80	85	100
6	Bowmore	12 years	Islay (Loch Indaal)	87		100
7	Bunnahabhain	12 years	Islay (North Shore)	77	70	75
8	Bushmills Malt	10 years	Ireland	75	80	70
9	Caol Ila	1988-2002 (14 years)	Islay
10	Cardhu	12 years	Speyside (Highlands)	72	75	80
11	Cragganmore	12 years	Speyside (Highlands)	90	75	70
12	Glen Deveron	12 years	Speyside (Highlands)	75	70	70
13	Glen Garioch	15 years 43%	Highlands (Eastern Speyside)	79	85	85
14	Glen Grant		Speyside (Highlands)	74	65	55
15	Glen Keith	10 years	Speyside (Highlands)	73
16	Glen Ord	12 years	Nothern Highlands	75	95	80
17	Glendronach	15 years Sherry	Speyside (Eastern Highlands)	79	85	95
18	Glenfarclas	12 years	Speyside (Highlands)	87
19	Glenfiddich	Special Reserve	Speyside (Highlands)	75	85	70
20	Glenfiddich	Solara 15 years	Speyside (Highlands)	78		80
21	The Glenlivet	12 years	Speyside (Highlands)	85	85	80
22	The Glenlivet	18 years 43%	Speyside (Highlands)	87
23	Glenmorangie	10 years	Northern Highlands	80	80	75
24	Glenrothes	1987-1999 (12 years)	Speyside (Highlands)	82	75	80
25	Highland Park	12 years	Orkney Islands	90
26	Isle of Jura	10 years	Isle of Jura (Highlands)	72
27	Knockando	1985 14 years	Speyside (Highlands)	(76)
28	Lagavulin	16 years	Islay (South shore)	95	90	100
29	Laphroaig	10 years	Islay (South shore)	86	80	95
30	Loch Lomond		Western Highlands			65
31	Royal Lochnagar	12 years	Eastern Highlands	83	70	70
32	The Macallan	12 years	Speyside (Highlands)	91	90	95
33	Redbreast	12 years	Ireland
34	Strathisla	12 years	Speyside (Highlands)	80
35	Talisker	10 years	Isle of Skye	90	95	95
36	The Tyrconnell	five stars	Ireland	74	70	75
37	Armorik		Bretagne, France			70
38	Glen Breton	43%	Nova Scotia, Canada			40

Start a tour through all of our single malt descriptions here.

As you can see I like the Islay whiskies most, and I dream of getting a bottle of Ardbeg some time. From all the books I conclude that Ardbeg should be even more "Islay" than Lagavulin...

Late Night Whisky

My wife, our tomcat Cardhu, and a glass of Cardhu (really!). Sorry for that underexposed picture, but

it was late and I was tired,
this is an available-light-shot because a flashlight would have destroyed that great moment and finally
my digital camera is really primitive, I am waiting for someone to give me a better one... ;-)

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