This is a review of the 35yo Gordon&MacPhail Glen Albyn (1975/2010)As I stayed in Inverness for a couple of nights this summer, I did a bit of whisky relic hunting. Up to the 80's Inverness could proudly…

Time to re-taste an old classic from the Bruichladdich stable, this was the second Port Charlotte I ever had. Last time I tried it back in 2012, I was relatively new to single malt whisky and thanks to…

This review is for the SMWS 25.59 Boxing gloves and rapier thrusts from the silent Rosebank distillery. Distilled back in 1991, this 20yo expression was matured in a refill bourbon cask.Nose: first…

I love Campbeltown whiskies, by that I mean everything of the Springbank range, not Glen Scotia. But it took me quite some time to eventually try the sister distillery of Springbank from the same owners…

Another one from the Diageo stall, an important ingredient of both Johnnie Walker and Bell's blends, but still fairly obscure as a single malt. Today I'm trying a festival bottling from the well known…

Distillery #64: Braeval (or Braes of Glenlivet, if you like). My first whisky from this distillery and for my first dram I've picked a bottle from a Belgian bottler called Brachadair (Gaelic for malt man…

At first, I'll admit I wasn't too impressed by the 12yo Dalmore. I could easily admit that I put Dalmore right there with Macallan as smooth overpriced snobbish brands. More than once I called the 12yo…

The Gordon & Macphail bottling serves as a semi-official release of the obscure Glenburgie distillery.With a heritage tracing back to 1829, one would expect that this survivor could would be well worth…

A whisky that seems to split the whisky community in two: another love or hate dram. The 2012 re-release of the popular Cigar Malt, now called Cigar Malt Reserve got quite a lot of flak from the fans the…

A new week, a new distillery. This week the Tullibardine distillery #62.The whisky: a light straw colour (no colour added) and nice long legs in the glassNose: Spirituous, cardboard, soft fruity notes…