I'm wary of independent bottlings, to be honest. I never know what to expect. There's not a lot of information on most of them. And they can go horribly wrong. So when I happened to taste this with a…

So here's a nifty little trick. Find out which distilleries closed in the last 100 years or so never to open again. Do extensive research and get an understanding of what their malts might have tasted…

I was at this tasting recently and someone told me about The Lost Distillery Company. Quite genius actually. They literally imagine what closed distillery malts may have tasted like and go about recre…

This particular expression was third in line at a Wemyss tasting I attended recently. An interesting independent bottler which goes after a particular flavor profile rather than the other way around. And…

Sampled at a tasting the night before I hadn't really heard much about Wemyss other than they were an interesting independent bottler with none other than the great Charlie Maclean chairing their nosing…

Wemyss, as I recently discovered at a tasting, is quite an interesting independent bottler. They go about trying to create specific flavor profiles rather than accepting what ever it is that comes out…

I think we all owe Glenfiddich a huge thanks! Not only for keeping the single malt flag flying so that it's visible to all those rookies out there but also providing seasoned palates with gem after gem…

When I was young and impressionable (not too long ago) I happened across a certain gentleman by the name of Jim Murray. His opinions and reviews left me riveted. I would swear by him and ridicule people…

They say the anticipation of sex is better than the sex itself. Ever since I began collecting malts I have had a fascination with Ardbeg. That was even before I had tasted one. My intrigue grew as did…

I'm a big fan of the Kilkerran Work In Progress series. These are remarkably robust expressions belying their fairly young(ish) age. This one has been matured in Sherry Wood and given that it's the 5th…