Our Top 4 Scotches of 2023!

Great picks! Happy holidays to all of you and your families.

Nice selections, guys — happy holidays.

Still relatively new to whisky, finally opened up a bottle of the famous Lagavulin 16 this year and it does not disappoint! Other favorites of the year include Old Pultney 12, Talisker Storm, and Aarran 10.

Great variety of picks! Enjoyed watching you guys throughout the year - best of luck for 2024!

My personal fav bottles for the year were a couple cask strength Ardnamurchans…good cask influence, great distillate, and good bang for the buck.

I really enjoyed Laphroaig's Cairdeas White Port and Madeira Cask this year.

Merry Christmas!

For me nothing could beat out the Springbank 15 I was lucky enough to find.
Deanston 18 was a close second.

Wonderful bottles, fellas. Merry Christmas from Canada! 😁

Good choices all round, would be happy to have those bottles in my collection! Hey you never know, Santa's coming soon & I've been a good boy this year 😁

Nice selection 👍🏾😎

Happy Holidays to you and yours fellas! Cheers 🥃😎

Great video guys! Would love to try all of them drams. My whisky of the year has to be Ledaig 18. A beautiful whisky. All the best from me in the UK 🇬🇧. Merry Christmas 🎅

Great price on that Laphroaig 25. Top shelf for us.

Tamdhu Cigar Malt batch 3 was my whisky of the year.

I like 1 Bunnahabhain 18 Year Old, 2 Kilchoman Sanaig 3 Glenfarclas 15 Year Old 4 THE HEARACH SINGLE MALT

Gotta go lagavulin 16.

Mark wins this one ^^

My whisky of the year was Kilchoman loch gorm, just lovely………

I have a Laph 25 50+ ABV from Costco also. What a great dram. Its the best in my collection.

L@sers. most of the bottles that you gave them more than 4- that i tried were awful. and some of the best one i tried you gave them 1.5

For me top pick this year was the 2023 Roseisle Special Release from Diageo. Lagavulin with no age statement from that same Special Release was really good as well for being finished in Tequila Cask. Ardbeg Amorphic was alright, just didn't have that drastic change I was looking for. Now the Anthology was another matter that delivered. So those 3 were top picks for me unless you included Octomore 14.3 which just hit struck all the right chords in me. Of course there is Ardbeg 25 I managed to grab earlier this year. Just waiting for a special time to open it. Really hope it delivers

Ho ho ho... ho! 🎅🎄Merry Christmas guys! Great picks. Love Orchard House.

Merry Christmas Dummies!!! A kick butt review! Love the range of bottles and the stories were the best! Love the Orchard House and need the Inchmurrin and that Deanston on the cabinet. And you lucky son of a gun Mark 😂! Cheers Boys!🥃

Great episode! Great picks too! My favorite this year is Bunnahabhain 12 cask strength 2023 edition so far. Happy holidays!

Thanks to this podcast my fav bottle: kilkerran 8 CS batch 4 Recharred Oloroso 57.1 %. Just bought my third bottle

Got to try Bunnahabhain 12 and loved every sip of it. Saw and bought the Cask Strength 2022 and it was a no brainer for me. Shared it with my friends :) Happy Holidays!

Solid bottles all.
The Inchmurrin is 80 by me and I really enjoy Madeira cask.
My Whisky of the year was Octomore 13.1.

Great review👍👍👍. I m not a big fan of Deanston. Tried 12 yrs 18 yrs virgin oak, it has a new oak taste that I hate so much. Mine favorite year has to be bihiki harmony light and complex 👍

Thanks guys for another good year of whisky reviews! Happy holidays.
My special whisky of this year: Craigellachie 13y
And AnCnoc 24y

excellent video and great selection, luckily I was able to try some expressions from all those producers. I was surprised by Shawn's choice, I still have a unopened bottle of the Inchmurrin the one that triggered my interest in Madeira finishes, of which I am a big fan today.
Merry Christmas to all and Cheers!🥃🎉🎄

Wow Laphroaig 25, so jelly Mark! My everyday drinker is Monkey Shoulder.

What a price on that Laphroaig 25. Need to get one of those. Cheers gents. Merry Christmas.

Laphroaig 25 is the best whiskey I have ever tasted.

Compass box 👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻🥃🥃🥃

The Glenlivet 21, Glendronach 12 and Johnnie Walker Gold

Picked up Laphroaig 30yo for $200 about 15 years ago, went back and got 3 more! Out of my range these days but what a ride.

Aultmore 12 foggie moss

DAMN!! A Laphroaig 25 for 299 - you have been a good boy this year....

As a white masculine male, this is embarrassing. Yes, I know whisky.

Is there a king in the comments that’s going to list the whiskeys mentioned in the video that the creator will pin 😅

Nice review, guys! Love Orchard House. Actually doing a Compass tasting in a few days. (I posted on the CB taste through but no response : ( We'll be tasting Artist, Glasgow, Orchard, Peat Monster, Spice Tree, Spaniard and Hedonism. I want to include one special rel that is maybe not too duplicative of these. Don't know if you've tried them but what do you think btwn Canvas, Experimental, Menagerie, Circles and Juveniles? thank you!

*brings out a Laphroig 25

loved mortlach 12 and bladnochs I had
Speyburn 15, or even the nonage statement one for youthful intensity

My favourite in 2023 was Craigellachie 23
What a superb whisky

Deanston have great whiskies, Compass Box CAN be great, Inchmurrin screwed me once with an 18 years old, NEVER Inchmurrin again (although I have fantastic Loch Lomonds and am a lover of Glen Scotia, which is owned by Loch Lomond), and when it comes to Laphroaig I prefer to stick to the 10 years old which has a way better price/quality! By the way, I think the prices of Scotch whisky in the USA is lots of times ridiculous, I give you an example, I have a few Springbanks of 12 and 13 years of age in my collection that I bought just a few years ago for around 60 euro's, they are still for sale in the USA for around.............1500 dollars, think about THAT!! Thumbs up from The Netherlands!

Are they all 2023 bottling?