Banff 1975 31 Year Old Signatory Cask Strength Collection

Banff 22 Year Old 1974 Connoisseurs Choice

Oh, look now, my 10th Banff. This Speyside distillery closed its doors in 1983 and has since been demolished. There's only one official bottling, the 21-year-old from 1982 in the Rare Malts Selection, bottled in 2004 (which I tasted in 2017). What I'm tasting today is a 22-year-old from 1974 that was bottled in 1997. So it has been in the bottle...

Score 87/100

Banff 36 Year Old 1978 Cadenhead Small Batch

Cadenhead, under the impulse of Mark Watt, has just released a new series named Small Batch. He returned to the old fashioned look that Cadenhead employed in the late Sixties of last century. I love that retro style. I tried a magnificent Highland Park 1988 in that range and now I will try the Banff 1978. The distillery closed since 1983 and has...

Score 91/100

Banff 1966 34 Year Old Sherry Cask

Nose: obviously from a (great) sherry cask. It shows lovely shoe polish and precious wood, apples, prunes, rhubarb, apple pie… A bit of old roses and leather. Even faint smoke and gentle tarmac. Cigar box. Quite superb, it could have been one of the great Macallan 18yo’s or an old Strathisla. You may argue that it shows little distillery character...

Score 85/100

Banff 1982 21 Year Old

The Banff distillery has been silent since 1983. Official bottlings are few and far between. This is one of them: the Banff 1982 in the Rare Malts Selection, bottled in 2004. This is only my 7th encounter with this lost malt from the Speyside. The nose is very clean and does not offer up a lot of aroma at first… I get some citrus, paper and...

Score 83/100