Renamed after James Allardice, the founder of the distillery, this is GlenDronach's third core range expression. Non chill filtered and with natural colour, it is probably the darkest single malt I've…

This is a fascinating whisky coming from an German importer in Berlin, under the name of Jack Wieber. The malt is from unknown Islay distillery, rumoured to be Lagavulin. Some info about the one I tasted…

Loch Lomond Single Malt comes from the Highland region and has no age statement. The distillery has released 7 different malts under various names, and some blended whiskies as well.I read somewhere that…

This NAS by the great Yamazaki distillery is full of jam notes but it doesn't make Yamazaki feel so great anymore. Mediocre whisky, I'll use the animation film called Flushed Away as the reference.In the…

Yes, totally it feels like the movie Boyhood, which follows the life Mason played by Ellar Coltrane. Good movie by Richard Linklater filmed over 12 years with the same cast. So when I first tasted the…

A Lowlander matured in bourbon casks, new addition to their core range since 2007 (replacing the 10yo). According to Dave Broom, this is an improvement. Like fellow Lowlander Auchentoshan, but with more…

I have to make it clear right from the start, this dram is much better than The Boondock Sainst movie. Redbreast 15YO has complexity and it strikes with force especially in the finish – a mobster movie…

I remember stating once that Connemara Peated was a contender. So this 12YO Connemara has to be a higher ranked competitor. Nice with malt and smooth notes, yet offering that peat smoke in a surprisingly…

Green Spot is a Single Pot Still Irish whiskey matured in first fill and re-fill bourbon casks and sherry casks. Coming from New Midleton Distillery (which makes Redbreast), I had high hopes tasting this…

...when drinking this whiskey. Great “bang for the buck” whiskey, one of the best ones out there I dare to say. Cheap, yet sophisticated. So of course the movie Trading Places comes to my mind and will…