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Jean Boyer

About the independent bottler

The "Jean Boyer" company has been created in 1993. It is a small company, where 6 people are working. It was originally created to produce quality aniseed alcohols.
The managers of "Jean Boyer" have an 25 years old experience in the whisky world, and especially in malt whisky as they were amongst the first single malt importers in France as soon as 1975.
They were the founders than the managers until 2000 of the AUXIL company, who were the first distributors of Lagavulin and Springbank in the retailers and restaurants networks in France.
Jean Boyer is nowadays an independent bottler, selecting single malt casks imported from Scotland. The company tries to market high quality spirits, applying traditional techniques of the Cognac world to single malt, in order to maintain the smooth aspect and a lingering finish for the bottled whiskies.
The "Best casks of Scotland" range puts together some of this whiskies, which are not chill filtered nor coloured. The range includes malts aged in exceptional casks, "sherry casks", "first fill sherry casks" and "small barrels" - American oak casks. Others are matured in re-coopered hogsheads.

See also the page dedicated to samples received from this bottler.

The whisky

List of the bottles

Glen-Garioch Reserve des proprietaires 1 88/100
Invergordon (candidate bottle The Second for Us) 1966 1 88/100
Laphroaig Single Cask bottling (hors commerce) 1 88/100
Best casks of Scotland Aberlour Best casks of Scotland 1996 1 85/100
Best casks of Scotland Aberlour Best casks of Scotland 1995 1 79/100
Best casks of Scotland Auchentoshan Best Casks of Scotland 1999 1 84/100
Best casks of Scotland Auchentoshan Best casks of Scotland 1995 2 84/100
Best casks of Scotland Balmenach Best Casks of Scotland 1999 1 75/100
Best casks of Scotland Balmenach Best Casks of Scotland 1999 (version diluée du Witch bottling) 1 84/100
Best casks of Scotland Ben-Nevis Best Casks of Scotland 1997-2008 1 81/100
Best casks of Scotland Benriach Best Casks of Scotland 1 70/100
Best casks of Scotland Benrinnes Best Casks of Scotland 1992 2 77/100
Best casks of Scotland Blair-Athol Best Casks of Scotland 1999 1 84/100
Best casks of Scotland Blair-Athol Best Casks of Scotland 1999 (2010) 1 74/100
Best casks of Scotland Blair-Athol Best Casks of Scotland 1991 1 84/100
Best casks of Scotland Bowmore Best Casks of Scotland 1998 1 82/100
Best casks of Scotland Bowmore Best Casks of Scotland, 2001-2007 1 84/100
Best casks of Scotland Braeval Best Casks of Scotland 1996 1 74/100
Best casks of Scotland Bunnahabhain Best Casks of Scotland 1997 peat 1 84/100
Best casks of Scotland Caol-Ila Best Casks of Scotland 1995 1 88/100
Best casks of Scotland Caol-Ila Best Casks of Scotland 2000 1 84/100
Best casks of Scotland Caol-Ila Best Casks of Scotland 1983 1 87/100
Best casks of Scotland Caperdonich Best casks of Scotland 1997 1 79/100
Best casks of Scotland Clynelish Best Casks of Scotland 1997 1 79/100
Best casks of Scotland Clynelish Best Casks of Scotland 1990 1 79/100
Best casks of Scotland Glen-Ord Best Casks of Scotland 1996-2007 1 74/100
Best casks of Scotland Glen-Ord Gifted Stills 1998 2 79/100
Best casks of Scotland Glendullan Best Casks of Scotland 1998 1 81/100
Best casks of Scotland Glendullan Best Casks of Scotland 1998 1 84/100
Best casks of Scotland Glengoyne Best Casks of Scotland 1997-2009 1 74/100
Best casks of Scotland Glengoyne Best Casks of Scotland 1997 0/100
Best casks of Scotland Glengoyne 1995 1 84/100
Best casks of Scotland Glenlivet Best casks of Scotland 1993 1 84/100
Best casks of Scotland Laphroaig Best Casks of Scotland 1998-2008 0/100
Best casks of Scotland Linkwood Best Casks of Scotland 1992 1 79/100
Best casks of Scotland Macallan Best Casks of Scotland 1998-2009 1 77/100
Best casks of Scotland Macallan Best Casks of Scotland 1998 0/100
Best casks of Scotland Macallan Best Casks of Scotland 1991 43° 1 84/100
Best casks of Scotland Macallan Best Casks of Scotland 1991 56,4° 1 84/100
Best casks of Scotland Macallan Best Casks of Scotland 1991 1 84/100
Best casks of Scotland Mortlach Best Casks of Scotland 1997 1 85/100
Best casks of Scotland Mortlach Best Casks of Scotland 1998-2010 1 75/100
Best casks of Scotland Mortlach Best Casks of Scotland 1990-2008 1 85/100
Best casks of Scotland Mortlach Best Casks of Scotland 1999 0/100
Best casks of Scotland Port-Ellen Best Casks of Scotland 1983 2 84/100
Best casks of Scotland Port-Ellen Best Casks of Scotland 1983, 46% 2 81/100
Best casks of Scotland Port-Ellen Best Casks of Scotland 1983, 55% 1 84/100
Best casks of Scotland Speyside Best Casks of Scotland 1994 1 84/100
Best casks of Scotland Speyside Best Casks of Scotland 1994 1 75/100
Best casks of Scotland Speyside Best Casks of Scotland 1996 1 80/100
Best casks of Scotland Springbank Best Casks of Scotland, 1996 1 84/100
Best casks of Scotland Teaninich Best Casks of Scotland 1997 1 84/100
Best casks of Scotland Tomatin Best Casks of Scotland 1994 1 78/100
Best casks of Scotland (Carafe) Caol-Ila Best Casks of Scotland 1979 4 88/100
Gifted Stills Aberlour Gifted Stills 1998 2 83/100
Gifted Stills Benrinnes Gifted Stills 2001 2 79/100
Gifted Stills Braeval Gifted stills 1999-2008 1 82/100
Gifted Stills Craigellachie Gifted stills 1999-2008 1 78/100
Gifted Stills Glen-Ord Gifted Stills 2001 1 79/100
Gifted Stills Glenburgie Gifted stills 1999-2008 1 74/100
Gifted Stills Glendullan Gifted Stills 2002 1 79/100
Gifted Stills Linkwood Gifted stills 1999 1 84/100
Gifted Stills Miltonduff Gifted stills 1999 1 84/100
Gifted Stills Royal-Brackla Gifted Stills 1999-2008 1 80/100
Gifted Stills Royal-Brackla Gifted Stills 1998 (version diluee du WitC bottling) 1 79/100
Gifted Stills Speyside Gifted Stills 2001-2008 1 76/100
Gifted Stills Speyside Gifted Stills 2001-2008 1 79/100
Le Puits à Whisky Ben-Nevis Ben Nevis 12 years 1 79/100
Le Puits à Whisky Benriach Glenriach 3 years 1 65/100
Le Puits à Whisky Braeval Braeval 10 years 1 79/100
Le Puits à Whisky Caol-Ila Caol Ila 9 years 0/100
Le Puits à Whisky Laphroaig Williamson 4 years 2 83/100
One Shot Girvan One Shot 1993 1 79/100
One Shot Glenlivet One shot, 1990 1 79/100
One Shot Laphroaig One Shot 1998 46% 1 84/100
One Shot Talisker One Shot 1992 46° 3 85/100
One shot Talisker One Shot 1992 58,8° 1 88/100
The forum bottlings Glen-Garioch The First for Us (forum bottling) 1 88/100
The forum bottlings Laphroaig The Fifth Birthday (forum bottling) 3 89/100
The WitC's Bottlings Balmenach The WitC's Bottlings 1999 1 84/100
The WitC's Bottlings Bowmore The witC's Bottlings 2010 1 88/100
The WitC's Bottlings Bunnahabhain Moine 2005, Whisky in the Church 2009 bottling 1 84/100
The WitC's Bottlings Bunnahabhain The witC's Bottlings 2010 1 84/100
The WitC's Bottlings Dailuaine The WitC's Bottlings 1998 1 84/100
The WitC's Bottlings Glen-Grant The witC's Bottlings 2010 1 84/100
The WitC's Bottlings Glengoyne 1997, Whisky in the Church 2009 bottling 1 84/100
The WitC's Bottlings Royal-Brackla The WitC's Bottlings 1999 1 84/100