14 Year Old Whisky

A wine cask finished malt from Longrow, part of their regular series of full proof bottlings exploring interesting wood. This one was matured for 11 years in refill bourbon casks before recasking in fresh Burgundy casks for a 3 year finish.

A limited edition Balvenie release, originally produced for the French market. This continues in the tradition of their Golden Cask and uses Cuban rum casks to finish the whisky for a total of 14 years of maturation.

A Signatory bottling of 14 year old Glenlivet, released as part of the Cask Strength Collection. Distilled in October 1996, matured in a sherry butt and bottled in October 2011, 6 days shy of its 15th birthday.

A 1995 Clynelish bottled for rising indie-bottling stars Daily Dram for their Nectar range. No details on the label, but from the colour we're guessing that this is from a refill cask.

A 1997 vintage Bunnahabhain, bottled in 2012 at 14 years of age by the folks at Adelphi.

A special Balvenie originally bottled for the travel retail market, Golden Cask has spent the latter part of its 14 years of maturation in casks that formerly held golden Caribbean rum.

The latest incarnation of the yearly cask strength 'unpeated' Caol Ila produced as part of Diageo's Special Releases selection. This time it's been aged for 14 years in ex-sherry casks, filled in 1997. There's not a lot of sherried Caol Ila out there and this might be our pick of this year's range.

An Old Malt Cask bottling from Douglas Laing of 1998 vintage whisky distilled at Laphroaig. Bottled in October 2012 from a refill hogshed.

From a tiny distillery in Orkney, Scapa is often overlooked in favour of its more famous neighbour Highland Park. This 14yo was quite a shortlived bottling -it was introduced by then new owners Chivas Brothers to replace the old 12yo, but was subsequently superseded by the now-familiar 16 year old standard official bottling.

A single cask offering from the ancient, picturesque Glenturret distillery, home of Famous Grouse. This is from a sherry cask and has been bottled at cask strength

A distillery only bottling from Bruichladdich, bottled at 14 years old and showing their habit of dual naming in Gaelic and English. Cairdean means family, or more loosely "friends".

A special whisky specially selected for the Springbank Society. This 1998 vintage whisky has been matured in Port butts for 7 years, before being 'finished' in Refill Bourbon Butts for another 7 years.

A very desirable 1995 Wild Turkey in extremely fancy packaging, this long-aged bourbon from one of Kentucky's finest distillers has been hand-selected by Master Distiller Jimmy Russell himself and comes in rather arresting wood and copper packaging.

A special edition Cragganmore bottled for Diageo's whisky fanclub - the Friends of the Classic Malts. A 14 year old bottled at the stronger than normal ABV of 47.5%.

A special bottling of Springbank. This 1989 vintage whisky has been matured for 14 years in Port Wood barrels.

A 14 year old Campbeltown whisky, distilled in 1990 and bottled by the Scotch Malt Whisky Society.

A 1995 release of 1980 vintage Craigellachie, bottled by independent whisky pioneers Milroy's.

A special bottling of Springbank whisky for the Springbank Society. This single cask whisky was matured in a Ex-Bourbon hogshead and bottled in March 2007 at 14 years old. Limited to just 265 bottles, this is a real collectors piece.

An interesting bottling by Springbank, specially for the Springbank Society. This 1995 vintage whisky has been matured in a "Fresh Sherry Pipe" for 14 years and was bottled in 2010.

A single cask bottling of 1991 vintage whisky from Bowmore Distillery. This has been specially selected by Dewar Rattray and bottled after 14 years of maturation in a sherry cask.