Bell's 20 Year Old Royal Reserve 1980sBlended Scotch Whisky 75cl 40% An old bottle of Bell's 20 year old Royal Reserve Blended Scotch whisky bottled at some point in the 1980s. The whiskies used, therefore, must have been distilled in the 1960s or earlier. These were terrific bottlings with big malt components that really shone out. These old bottles of 20 year old Bell's Royal Reserve first appeared in the 1970s and usually contain significant portions of Blair Athol and Inchgower,

This dram is a powerful marriage of whisky matured in the finest rum casks with time-honoured peated spirit and a rich layer of first-fill Bourbon barrel adding sweetness and fruit

it is a classy

Bottled by: Douglas Laing 70cl / 41

"Still Young 2006"

savoury and delicious wee dram

Brilliant stuff

a richer concentration of chocolate and spice and soft waxy complexity underneath

G&M have also spiced things up and bottled this one at a natural strength instead of 46%

This would most likely have been distilled in the late 1970s or very early 1980s

an absolute powerhouse

This 22-year-old Benriach is matured traditionally in American Bourbon barrels and then finished in Dark Rum casks sourced from Jamaica

This brilliant Ardmore is surprisingly one of the easier examples when you look at it next to the likes of the mad Linlithgow