After taking my sweet time to review the 8 different whiskies from The Whisky Exchange’s 10th Anniversary that were released in 2009 I finally managed to write my notes on all of them. The first one was published last year, while I was still blogging in Dutch.

Now, finally, all the results are in and as I usually like to do is compare incomparable whiskies in a list from low to high scores. So, here goes nothing:

• 8: Amrut – 63% (4 points / 0 stars).
• 7: Hakushu 1989 – 62% (27 points / 3 stars)
• 6: Glenglassaugh 1978 – 44.6% (31 points / 4 stars)
• 5: Islay Whisky – 58.5% (32 points / 4 stars)
• 4: Linkwood 1973 – 49.7% (36 points / 5 stars)
• 2: Longmorn 1969 – 57.7% (38 points / 5 stars)
• 2: Karuizawa 1982 – 56.1% (38 points / 5 stars)
• 1: Clynelish 37 – 46% (39 points / 5 stars)

A very well done set of bottles, if I may say so. Many a good dram and apart from the Amrut I wouldn’t consider any of those a bad buy. As seen above, I really loved the Clynelish and I regret not getting it in time… The Longmorn was quite a bit more expensive and a little over my budget. The Linkwood was a tremendous dram as well, but also long gone. Only the Glenglassaugh is still available from the Whisky Exchange, but I guess most bottles will pop-up in an auction every now and then.

A big thank you to the guys at The Whisky Exchange and the Belgian Forum ‘Gedeelde Vreugde‘ for organizing this Bottle-Share! Tip: They still have a lot of sets from other Bottle-Shares available!