Glen Scotia 12 Year Old

When you see a whisky with a straightforward age statement name like this, from a 19th century distillery, you’d be forgiven for assuming it had always been around. This new (fantastic value) 12 Year Old, however, was only released in August 2025! No nonsense, simply 100% first fill bourbon cask, fruity, maritime Campbeltown goodness.

Following intermittent production and closure during the 1990s, the Glen Scotia range has seen many changes this century (and some ‘disco cows’, which has to be worth a google…), but has really gone from strength to strength in the last decade, becoming essential and truly beloved by whisky geeks. Campbeltown meanwhile was once “the whisky capital of the world”, but today there are only three distilleries. It’s the smallest of the official whisky regions in that regard (even with another three distilleries on the way).