Glenfiddich Ancient Reserve 18 Year Old

Now to try another fine malt. The Glenfiddich aged 18 years Ancient Reserve. It is available in full 70cl bottles and miniatures. It retails at around £40 a bottle and is 40% by volume. If you buy it online from the distillery website they do a free personalised label, which I think is quite nice. It is also available in a few supermarkets, specialist suppliers and online. In my view its' not quite as nice a malt as the 18 year old Highland Park but it is £20 a bottle cheaper. It's one of the malts I quite like. I suppose that you could ask why bother going through the palaver of tasting and rating whisky. Two reasons, the first is that it's fun, it enhances ...  Read the complete review

Wherever you choose to buy your Scotch, whether at the pub, off licence, duty free or specialised whisky shop, the chances that you won't have at least one of the many different Glenfiddich bottlings to choose from are fairly small. Glenfiddich is probably the most visible and best marketed of all single malt whiskies. The stag's head logo on the simple but smart packaging that holds this "water of life" is immediately recognisable. Many a Scotch drinker's first dram has been the 12 year old Special Reserve, this bottling being the most popular in the range and therefore probably the biggest seller in the world. Although I personally find ...  Read the complete review