I’ve never had a Benrinnes before, so it was one of the factors in my decision to purchase the Boutique-y whisky company’s advent calendar when it went on sale for half price at the LCBO. I don’t know…

I know almost nothing about Auchroisk, other that it is in Banffshire and a lot of what the distillery produces goes into the J&B blends. So when the LCBO dropped its price on the 2019 advent calendar…

This is the sixth in a series of 24 reviews of the 2019 whisky advent calendar, the result of seizing an opportunity when the LCBO dropped the price of this set by 50% in early 2020. Call me weak.Before…

Since I’m doing a review of Ardmore’s contribution to the Boutiquey Advent calendar for 2019, I thought I would review a couple of other minis and samples from the distillery on the same day. This one…

In May 2018 I reviewed the Ardmore Traditional Cask. The bottle had been open since 2014. I was not reaching for it often and thankfully @Paddockjudge took the bottle off my hands to make room in a very…

As I make my way through last year’s whisky advent calendar, I am reviewing samples and minis I have collected and neglected over the years to compare and contrast. I just reviewed the Aberlour expres…

Aberlour produces one of my favourite expressions - A’Bunadh. This whisky helped me start my whisky journey back in 2011. I quickly snapped up all the OBs I could get. Luckily I didn’t open them all…

This is the fourth in a series of 24 reviews, the result of seizing an opportunity when the LCBO dropped the price of this set by 50% in early 2020. FOMO wins again.This is probably my first ever expe…

I don’t have a lot of formal experience with Bunnahabhain. I just reviewed another Bunnahabhain and so I thought this would be a good time to review something from the same distillery, so that I could…

This is the third of 24 reviews in this series, the result of FOMO and seizing an opportunity when the LCBO dropped the price of this set by 50% in early 2020.There are some people who absolutely love…