Where it came from no one knows, but suddenly it was there. John McCrae’s co. single malt whiskies. Named in honour of the famous Canadian wartime poet, who wrote the famous ‘In Flanders Fields’ a cen…

Ah Old Pulteney, my salty old flame from Wick, so familiar yet still largely uncharted territory. Though I regularly stock a 12 or 17 in the cabinet, I never ventured any further in the wonderless world…

A barren plain of rocks earmarked by the raging winds of the Atlantic, an eerie no-man’s-land of moors, bogs and shimmering blue lakes. How the hell did the East-Irish distiller Cooley think they could…

I am well aware that the Kilbeggan you’ll find in stores today is made at the Cooley Distillery as the first batches of the old reopened distillery haven't come of age yet. But it was only after buying…

Hit-and-runLike many other contemporary distilleries between 1956 and 1981 the old Glenburgie distillery used to host a set of Lomond stills. They produced a single malt distinctive from the main product…

As I gave the 6th Kilkerran Work In Process (commonly known as the WIP VI) a solid 91, you can imagine I was very excited about the new cask strength release. An opinion apparently widely shared as the…

Once in a while, you make a calculated guess when visiting a specialist whisky shop and you pick a reasonably priced bottle from the shelf, from a distillery you appreciate by an independent bottler you…

Everyone who reviewed the Glenlivet Founder’s reserve got dragged into the NAS vs. Age Statement argument. I prefer not to get involved: no angry rants or sycophant flattery in this review. I’d just like…

Following the quest to try as much of every lost distillery before they waste away for good, I opened one of three Glenury Royal samples/miniatures that I still have in my possession. To me this Stone…

On a visit to my favourite local liquor shop, stocking over 3000+ different bottles of whisky, I came to the sobering observation that even independent whiskies are no longer for the little spender. No…