When we love whisky so much, it’s hard to be brutal about some of the obvious negatives. Yet sometimes, when things are clearly wrong, we just have to call it out. This decision was not taken lightly.

On the hunt for salt and balance, Urquart searches for a replacement to his lamented and lost Old Pulteney 17yo. He discovers this sensitively presented single cask fills a gap nicely. This is a Dramface Friday First.

Once more we visit the topic of nostalgia through our whisky-glass lens, specifically a bottle that was easily one of the most solid bang-for-buck malts for years. It seems that has changed, and Ogilvie can taste it.

Balanced but polarised, a solid drinker.

A perplexing whisky in some respects.