Buchanan's De Luxe 12 Year

11/16. Similar to JW Black but - longer better finish. More citrusy. Less malty (more grain), thinner. JW Black is fuller in the mouth, more malt, but very short finish. I like this better than JWB and it's cheaper

A local liquor store owner was nice enough to share a sample with me that was left over from a recent Buchanan's tasting. The initial delivery on this scotch is not too bad, with some sweet fruits, but the palate becomes hopelessly blurred with muddled smoke and cloying, grainy sweetness dominating the finish. It's light bodied and inexpensive, but there are much better blended scotch values out there (the NAS Grants, for instance, blows this out of the water). Diageo owns this blend and they do a much better job with a 12 yr old blended scotch with their iconic Johnnie Walker Black. Not recommended, although I thought the Buchanan's 18 that I also sampled wasn't bad.

Very good

It's got its own taste, recognizable right as you taste it, and not too expensive. Favorite everyday whisky