Scotland: Single malt whisky through the producing distilleries: history, making and tasting
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Rare Malts

About Rare Malts

Introduction

The "Rare Malts" collection was born in 1995. The collection was originally meant for selling only in duty free shops but became soon available in good whisky sops. The aim of the collection was to present selected malts to the general public. This malts were not only selected for their quality, but also because they represented a consistent image of a distillery. To elaborate its collection, Diageo selected casks from their old reserves. Selection criteria were rather severe, according to internal Diageo standards. One of the conditions was that there must be at least 3 equivalent casks left before bottling. The malts in this series are not single casks, but small batches.

All bottlings are cask strength, without any water addition nor chill filtering.
Much more information about this collection is available in the excellent book by Ulf Buxrud, to be published by end of October 2006 "Rare Malts: facts, figures and taste".

Bottles

Banff Rare malts 21 Bladnoch Rare malts 23 Brora Rare Malts 21 ans

Glen Mhor 28 Rare Malts
Banff Bladnoch Brora Glen Mhor
Coleburn Rare Malts Convalmore rare malts 24 Glen ALbyn Millburn 35 rm
Coleburn Convalmore Glen Albyn Millburn
Glen Mhor Rare Malts Glendullan Rare Malts Linkwod 26 ans rare malts  
Glen Mhor Glendullan Linkwood  
Port Ellen Rare Malts 22 Rosebank Rare malts 1981 Royal Lochnagar Rare malts 30  
Port Ellen Rosebank Royal Lochnagar  
North Port Rare Malts 20 Inchgower: 27 ans Rare Malts St Magdalene 19 Rare Malts  
North Port Inchgower St Magdalene  
Clynelish 23 Rare malts Glen Ord 23 ans Rare Malts Millburn 25 rare malts  
Clynelish Glen Ord Millburn  
Teaninich Rare Malts 23 years Caol Ila Rare malts 21 Linkwood 30 Rare Malts  
Teaninich Caol Ila Linkwood