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Scapa

The Isles: Orkney

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The whisky

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Official 12 years 78/100
3
3 0
Official 14 years 74/100
2
2 0
Official Chivas Edition 1992-2006 78/100
1
0 1
Official 16 years 81/100
1
0 1 Forum
Gordon & MacPhail Single Cask 1993 84/100
11
1 10 BT2009
Gordon & MacPhail Scapa 12 years 85/100
2
0 2
Ian McLeod Chieftain's Choice 16 years 84/100
4
4 0
Taste Still Taste Still 1993-2005 0/100

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Scapa: Official bottlings

Scapa

12 years
Collection
 The Malt Heritage Collection
Age
 12 years
Alcohol percentage
 40,0 %
Bottler
 Official
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 78/100
The colour is gold with amber glints, the nose is marked by fruits and cereal sweetness.
The oily palate is well balanced and goes on floral and fruity touches and on malt.
The finish reveals some chocolate hints, which is often present at Scapa's malts.

(la Maison du Whisky)

Personal Comment
The discrete and pleasant smell of cereals annouces a sweet and relatively simple taste. The impression in the mouth gives lots of pleasure, however a slight lack of density and surprise is regrettable. A finish of average length. A good bottle from one of the sole Orkney distilleries.
The reasonable price makes it a very good quality-price rating.
74/100
A second tasting reveales some discrete qualities of this whisky. Slightly acid notes enhancing this relatively flat whisky. A pleasant finis, et the whole does not really justify the first quotation....
79/100
A rather pleasant nose recalling ripe fruits (something between pear and prune). In the palate, the first impression is some bitterness, and it develops on more floral notes. The sweetness detected by the nose is not present anymore. The finish is of average length, and the bitterness marking the palate is still present. It is a rather interesting bottling, despite a kind of simplicity in the taste.
79/100.

Scapa

14 years
Age
 14 years
Alcohol percentage
 40,0 %
Bottler
 Official
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 74/100
Scapa 14
Nose : round, smooth. Slightly smoked. Floral (lavender). Herbal (cut hay).
Hints of leather and exotic fruit (pineapple). Vanilla.
Palate: powerful, round. Hints of tobacco, cigar. Fruity (peach, cherry plum). Chocolate, praline. develops on dry fruits (allmond, nut).
Finish: long and firm, vegetal (tobacco leave). liquorice. Smooth notes of holey and lavender. Chocolate, butter, ripe fruit (melon)

(la Maison du Whisky)
Personal Comment
Another whisky which needs some attention in order to get all its qualities, which are not obvious immediately. The nose is very discrete at the beginning, however it is rather rich and various, between honey and more floral and aromatically richer hints. In the palate, not great taste explosions. Papillas are not really of the party. A good whisky, with some (sometimes too) subtil nuances. The finish is interesting, and relatively sweet, recalling honey and ripe fruit. A good bottle, to celebrate the reopening of the distillery, but it is certainly not the best production of Scapa.
74/100
The rather discrete nose is clearly on the fruits, peach, pear or melon, with some floral hints and a touch of honey. In the palate, the presence of honey remains, mixed with a kind of bitterness. A kind of watery feeling probably due to the percentage of alcohol. The mouth is clearly less interesting than the nose was. A touch of acidity, a touch of smoke and a touch of malt. The pleasant but too short finish is sweet with some discrete hints of malt. The frustration of the mouth just increases with the second sip, just like all following ones....
74/100
Scapa: Independent bottlings

Scapa

Chieftain's Choice 16 years
Collection
 Chieftain's Choice
Age
 16 years
Alcohol percentage
 43,0 %
Bottler
 Ian McLeod
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 84/100
The nose detects some sherry, cinnamon or beeswax hints.
The taste is malted, but reveals spices and the taste of oak wood.
The finish is powerful, spicy and oily, with a liquorice and black pepper after taste.

(la Maison du Whisky)

Personal Comment
I expected a salted, peaty whisky, typical from the islands.... None of all. A wonderful whisky, sweet and with a lot of character. A slight predominance of malt? Anyway, an excellent whisky which has its place in each nice whisky collection. A long finish which leaves an excellent memory. Obviously, Chieftain's Choice is a very nice collection.
.79/100
A second tasting confirmed partially the first one. The nose is dominated by the sherry and other pleasant fragrances, the palate develops on malt and spices and quite a long and very pleasant finish had as result a slightly better rating this time.
84/100
The nose is clearly dominated by sherry, but reveals a nice complexity too, with discrete notes of spices amongst other sensations. In the palate, this whisky is really wonderful, with clear spicy notes, but staying however very nicely balanced and with a pleasant malty background. An extraordinary finish, giving the impression that this whisky is even greater after swallowing... A very long finish, where the spicy notes remain, but with some violet or more precisely, liquorice hints. This bottle was a real revelation at the third tasting.
88/100
The nose is pleasantly floral with a light veil of smoke on the background. After a while, fruity notes (exotic fruit, mango) appear.
In the palate, a very pleasant impression of chocolate and nuts, followed by fruits (banana, apple) and malt: a nice complexity. A voluptuous whisky.
The finish is long, pleasant marked by both the fruits and some slightly bitter hints (wood)
84/100
Scapa samples

Scapa

Taste Still 1993-2005
Collection
 Taste Still Selection
Age
 12 years
Alcohol percentage
 46,0 %
Bottler
 Taste Still
Dates
 Distil: 1883 Bottling: 2005
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 0/100
Scapa Taste still
Personal Comment
Scapa: Not in colllection

Scapa

Single Cask 1993
Age
 No age statement
Alcohol percentage
 45 %
Bottler
 Gordon & MacPhail
Cask number
single cask 1728
Dates
 Distil: 1993 Bottling: 2009
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 BT2009 0/100
BT2009
Personal Comment

Scapa

Scapa 12 years
Age
 12 years
Alcohol percentage
 45 %
Bottler
 Gordon & MacPhail
Dates
 Distil: 1993 Bottling: 2006
Particularity
 (Single Cask)
links & average quote
 85/100
Scapa 12 G&Mp
Personal Comment

Scapa

Chivas Edition 1992-2006
Age
 14 years
Alcohol percentage
 60,5 %
Bottler
 Official
Dates
 Distil: 1992 Bottling: 2006
Particularity
 Non chillfiltered cask strength (Batch SC14001)
links & average quote
 78/100
Personal Comment

Scapa

16 years
Age
16 years
Alcohol percentage
40 %
Bottler
Official
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Forum 81/100
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