I've been sitting on some samples that @cricklewood sent back around xmas time, and I'm not able to contain my curiosity any longer ...I know there was some Connosr cask selection going on here, and it…

Sample courtesy of @wierdo - thanks again!I found myself in the fairly unusual place of having two separate batches of the same whiskey open when I got this. I did a head to head with the B1-17 version…

OK, third times the charm, hopefully, for this review ... I've been dabbling in older blends of late and this is the Red counterpart to the Black from the same era I recently reviewed - it was excellent…

Another sample from @wierdo, cheers mate! Ive only ever had the standard OB of Cragganmore and that was years ago at the K Club in Ireland (golf) so who knows how long it had sat on the shelf. Still…

I had been looking forward to getting my hands on a bottle of this for a while. It's one of those that nearly everyone likes, with some well-respected reviewers gushing in their praise. Bottle is half…

Apologies, this is the 2010 version. Thanks, again, to @wierdo for the sample. A mix of the Bere strain of barley, from various farms in Scotland, which is apparently so hardy it can grow on Orkney.…

So what was so great about the 80's then? Well, yours truly was born for a start, the music was better than you might remember, Schwarzenegger and Norris, Aliens and Predator, tube socks and sweat bands…

This bottle was most kindly sent my way via the generosity of @cricklewood. Too kind, Sir! It's been open over ten months now and is about half full.Now I could go into the specs of this whisky in a…

Yet another gratefully received sample courtesy of @wierdo, many thanks! I know little about this bottle other than it hails from the Balblair distillery. Let's dive in ...Review is with a half tsp to…

My first stray away from the 12, if my memory serves, which is a whisky I was very fond of last time out. This was a most welcome Father's day gift but perhaps not something I would have bought for…