This is certainly one peaty whisky. Put your nose in the glass and you are met with boggy, mossy peat, as well as leafy/papery smoke and a light mothball sweetness. Yet for all that peat it comes across…

Wiser's Small Batch is a full-flavoured Canadian blend. It tastes kind of rummy, with burnt sugar and butter aromas. It also has a chemical element, sort of a mild 'magic marker' smell. It is full and…

I've had some time adjusting to this, and now here it is, my official review. I'm drinking it out of a Glencairn Canadian Whisky Glass with a single ice cube, for those that want to know.Nose: rich,…

Sticking my nose up to the bottle of this ten-year-old Canadian blend makes me think of three words: hot buttered rum. In the glass it introduces more spices and nutty aromas in addition to the molasses…

Nose: soft, lemony, grassy/floral. Very lowland in style, though not as sweet as Glenkinchie. Opens up with the addition of an ice cube.Taste: sweet, crisp attack on the palate. Quickly becomees peppery…

Nose: sweet and peaty. I get vanilla, black licorice, some light florals, and a clean peat aroma than is more earthy than smoky. It has neither the ashy dryness of Laphroaig and Caol Ila nor the intense…

Forty Creek has become the darling of whisky connoisseurs who otherwise wouldn't admit to actually liking Canadian whisky. What some might not realize is that there is no Forty Creek distillery; the…

I recall reading somewhere that Taketsura 12 year old is a vatting of malts from two Nikka distilleries: one is Yoichi and I can't remember the other. The bottle exemplifies Japan's preferences in whisky…

When I first stick my nose into a glass of Powers Gold Label, I think of struck flint, that wisp of smoke from a cigarette lighter. The only other whisky to make me think of this was Hiram Walker Special…

Rittenhouse is only the second American straight rye I've had, and to tell the truth I doubt I could tell it apart from a bourbon. Maybe my nose for American whiskey just isn't that developed. Anyway,…