Scotland: Single malt whisky through the producing distilleries: history, making and tasting
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Duncan Taylor

About the independent bottler

The Whisky Galore is part of the Duncan Taylor group, himself created by the Rosenberg brothers in 1938. The company consists in a small group of experts in single malt.
Whisky Galore selects carefully its whisky at the distilleries, and bottles the single malt without adding any colorings and without chill filtering it. The whiskies marketed by Duncan Taylor are bottled after a rigorous selection of the spirit and of the cask it self, and matured in the warehouses of the producing distillery. The society owns its own bottling plant in Huntly.
The Peerlees collection, belonging to the same group, has won lots of prizes.
The name of the company comes from the famous sinking of the SS Politician who wrecked near the coasts of Eriskay, on the west coast of Scotland in 1941. The ship was carrying whisky, and the inhabitants around there could drink quite cheap whisky for a while

The whisky

List of the bottles

Bowmore 1968, 37 years 1 88/100
Bunnahabhain Rare Auld 1968-2006 1 94/100
Bunnahabhain 38 years 1 81/100
Cameronbridge Selection "La maison du whisky" 1 84/100
Caperdonich 35 years Old. From Huntly to Paris 1 90/100
Caperdonich Private Bottling 2 81/100
Glen-Grant 1969 (for Van Wees, Holland) 1 84/100
Battlehill Caol-Ila 27 years, Battlehill 1 88/100
From Huntly to Paris Inverleven Aged 30 years 1 85/100
Lonach Glenrothes 1969, aged 39 years 1 85/100
NC2 Imperial NC2 1994/2007 1 82/100
Peerless Bowmore 36 years, 1966-2002 1 93/100
Peerless Bowmore 1968, 34 years 1 88/100
Rare Auld Cask Strength Ardbeg Rare Auld Cask Strength 15 years 1 90/100
Rare Auld Cask Strength Brora Rare Auld Cask Strength 27 years 3 89/100
Rare Auld Cask Strength Bunnahabhain Rare Auld Cask Strength 38 years 1 93/100
Rare Auld Cask Strength Caperdonich Rare Auld Cask Strength 36 years 1 86/100
Rare Auld Cask Strength Caperdonich Rare Auld Cask Strength 38 years 2 88/100
Rare Auld Cask Strength Caperdonich Rare Auld Cask Strength 35 years, The Nectar bottling 0/100
Rare Auld Cask Strength Carsebridge Rare Auld Cask Strength 28 years 1 92/100
Rare Auld Cask Strength Cragganmore Rare Auld Cask Strength 18 years 0/100
Rare Auld Cask Strength Dalmore Rare Auld Cask Strength 18 years 1 83/100
Rare Auld Cask Strength Glen-Grant Rare Auld Cask Strength 36 years 1 79/100
Rare Auld Cask Strength Glen-Moray Rare Auld Cask Strength 36 years 1 88/100
Rare Auld Cask Strength Glen-Scotia Rare Auld Cask Strength 18 years 1 78/100
Rare Auld Cask Strength Glenesk Rare Auld Cask Strength 20 years 2 86/100
Rare Auld Cask Strength Glenlivet Rare Auld Cask Strength 22 years 1 79/100
Rare Auld Cask Strength Glenlivet Rare Auld Cask Strength 37 years 0/100
Rare Auld Cask Strength Glentauchers Rare Auld 1990 1 90/100
Rare Auld Cask Strength Highland-Park Specially selected for The Nectar Belgium 1 91/100
Rare Auld Cask Strength Imperial Rare Auld Cask Strength 19 years 1 84/100
Rare Auld Cask Strength Inchgower Rare Auld Cask Strength 37 years 1 88/100
Rare Auld Cask Strength North-British Rare Auld Cask Strength 29 years 1 91/100
Rare Auld Cask Strength Port-Dundas Rare Auld Cask Strength 34 years 1 83/100
Rare Auld Cask Strength Royal-Lochnagar Rare Auld Cask Strength 22 years 1 85/100
Rare Auld Cask Strength Strathclyde Rare Auld Cask Strength 30 years 0/100
Rare Auld Cask Strength Strathclyde Rare Auld Cask Strength 35 years 1 91/100
Rare Auld Cask Strength Tomatin Rare Auld Cask Strength 1976 1 90/100
Rarest of the Rare Banff Rare of the Rarest 35 years 0/100
Rarest of the Rare Glenburgie Glencraig 33 years Rarest of the Rare 1 83/100
Rarest of the Rare Glenlochy Rarest of the Rare 26 years, #2454 1 87/100
Rarest of the Rare Glenlochy Rarest of the Rare 24 years, #2451 1 79/100
Rarest of the Rare Glenugie Rarest if the Rare, 25 years 1 88/100
Rarest of the Rare Glenury-Royal Rarest of the Rare 22 years 1 84/100
Rarest of the Rare North-Port Rarest of the Rare 25 years 1 84/100
Rarest of the Rare Port-Ellen Rarest of the Rare 26 years 0/100
Rarest of the Rare Port-Ellen Rarest of the Rare 27 years 19 87/100 WDTSRG
Taste Still Selection Bowmore Taste Still 1968 (from Duncan Taylor) 1 84/100
Whisky Galore Aberlour Whisky Galore 1989 4 79/100
Whisky Galore Glen-Elgin 12 years 2 84/100
Whisky Galore Glen-Garioch Whisky Galore 15 years 3 78/100
Whisky Galore Macduff 15 years 1 70/100
Whisky Galore Mortlach Whisky Galore 16 years, Cask Strength 0/100