In the lead-up to Passover, I usually review a Japanese whisky before I seal up my cabinet. This year, I decided to do a series of reviews from my open collection of Israeli whiskies before I seal up…

In the lead-up to Passover, I usually review a Japanese whisky before I seal up my cabinet. With the rising rate of anti-semitic incidents, both violent and online, I decided this year to do a series…

In the lead-up to Passover, I often review a Japanese whisky before I seal up my cabinet. With the rising rate of anti-semitic incidents, both violent and online, I decided this year to do a series of…

In the lead-up to Passover, I usually review a Japanese whisky before I seal up my cabinet. In 2020 I broke with that tradition and reviewed an Israeli whisky. With the rising rate of anti-semitic…

My first experience with Balvenie was a bottle of their single cask series, back in 2011, the first year of my whisky journey. I bought one for my uncle after reading about it or hearing about it on a…

I am blessed not only with generous friends, but with friends who like to buy, try and share new whiskies. I tasted this on Dec. 10, 2022, at an epic tasting which included @Fiddich1980 who opened it and…

Most of you reading this know that I have had a soft spot for Bladnoch since I tasted my first bottle of their 10 YO sherry-cask matured (Sheep label). In those days, I was whisky naïve and entranced…

Those of you who know me will no doubt be aware that Amrut is one of my favourite distilleries, if not my favourite. I have never tasted anything from them that was less than good. Many are outstanding…

Well, this was a treat. Early this year I heard from someone about a mysterious group called The Drop Collective that anyone could join, that was holding a lottery for a very exclusive release of a 18…

@Talexander has been known to frequent an auction or two. In January I was visiting him to conduct some whisky business, and he gifted me a number of miniatures he had procured in auctions in the past…