Artful Dodger Whisky Collective is a new label from London-based wine & spirits merchant Woolf Sung Ltd, launched in 2018. They see themselves as a collective of ‘whisky thieves’ dedicated to liberating the world’s rarest casks .

Their first batch includes Strathclyde 27yo , Glenturret 23yo , Port Charlotte 8yo and this Clynelish 20 years old , distilled in 1997 . It is bottled in a nice 50 cl apothecary-style bottle with cork stopper.

Clynelish 20 yo 1997 (55,9%, Artful Dodger 2018, bourbon hogshead #6526, 50 cl)

Nose: classic Clynelish profile, with a lovely warm waxiness. That’s...