As we’ve learned, the Connosr website will become a read-only archive in just over a week. That will happen during the Passover holiday, and as many of you are aware, I seal my cabinet during that time…

As the countdown continues before I can no longer post to Connosr, I have been getting to a number of reviews I’ve meant to do for a very long time. On April 14 I prepared tasting notes for 5 Bruichl…

As I run out of time before I can no longer post to Connosr, I have been getting to a number of reviews I’ve meant to do for a very long time. On April 14 I prepared tasting notes for 5 Bruichladdich…

The decision to mothball Connosr has spurred me to try to get in a few more long-planned reviews while I still can. On April 14 I recorded tasting notes for 5 Bruichladdichs that I’ve had on hand for…

Last week it was announced that near the end of the month, Connosr will cease to exist as an interactive site. The site will be available as “read-only” going forward. As someone who has enjoyed reading…

As you know, this week it was announced that near the end of the month, Connosr will cease to exist as an interactive site. This was a shock to some of us who “grew up” in our whisky journey with this…

As most of you know by now, I have liked Aberlour A’Bunadh from the outset of my whisky journey which began in earnest in 2011. In the early years I would buy at least one of every batch that I could get…

Back when the Armstrong brothers owned this Lowland distillery, I was a big fan. They released mostly single barrel bottlings of 10, 11 and 12 YO whisky, some lightly peated, mostly sherry cask matured…

In 2017 I moved from the first house my wife, children and I lived in together to our current home, which we bought from my mother when she moved into a condo. It’s a great house to grow up in, on a…

I like Springbank. I originally bought a 12 YO CS and a 12 YO Claret wood early in my whisky journey and I was not too impressed. After about a year in the back of my cabinet I “rediscovered” it. At…