Talisker 8 Year Old Late 1960sIsland Single Malt Scotch WhiskyDistillery Bottling 26 2 3 Fl Oz 80 Proof A wonderful old bottle of Talisker 8 year old Island single malt whisky. This is an official bottling from The Distillers Agency, the distribution arm of Diageo forerunners Distillers Company Ltd (DCL), and is an unusual long necked bottle with a small, short screwcap that suggests it was bottled around the end of the 1960s. Needless to say, this Talisker 8 year old will be

Part of the seventh release from Alistair Walker's Infrequent Flyers series

and it's very obviously working: this is the sixth batch of their organic Highland single malt in almost as many months

A lovely old bottle of 1966 Aberlour matured for 30 years in a mix of two sherry butts and one bourbon hogshead before being released in the mid-1990s

Finish: Medium bodied with sweet treacle toffee

this 75cl edition dates from the early 1990s and is presented in one of the distillery's famous tins - many of which are still adorning pubs and mantelpieces across the country decades later - with an image of one of Scotland's Great Highland Regiments

while Kilchoman Sanaig is made with about 70% sherried whisky

more complex personality than its younger siblings

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

Brand Langs

Country England Limited Edition Yes Bottles Produced 4822 Cask Type Moscatel Wine Finish

Lowland Single Grain Scotch WhiskyBottled by: Cooper's Choice 70cl / 51%

6% in 2014 with an outturn of just 588 bottles