I had my first bottle of this about two years ago and fell in love. I scored it 91 but that mark has since bugged me as I feel it deserved to be at least a point, maybe two, higher than that given what…

I was gifted this for the birth of my second child three weeks ago. It was opened straight away and I will say from the off that I've been reaching for this more than any other bottle I currently have…

Yet another sample (3/5) most kindly sent from @Wierdo.I must confess that when I opened the little package this was the one that got me really excited. It's the fourth release of the Local Barley…

Another review from a sample (2/5) from @Wierdo.There is a story to this bottling it seems but the upshot being they've bottled some 10 year old Benrinnes under the name Stronachie as that is the malt…

First off, big thanks to @Wierdo for the sample! He reviewed this here on Connosr (https://www.connosr.com/glen-grant-smws-9-157-i-drambled-lonely-as-a-cloud-whisky-review-12855) and wasn't that impr…

Lots one could say about this whiskey but I'll settle for saying that it has had the critics drooling since its release and, so it would seem, also the 'layperson'. I've liked all previous Heaven Hill…

I've been looking forward to reviewing a bottle of this for a long time. Why, you may ask? Well, it was this whisky that I hold accountable for me falling head over heels for all things Scotch (and…

My second bottle of this 12 year old OB and whilst I didn't rate that last bottle here, I enjoyed it immensely and would have rated it high 80s ( I think I drank it, with the help of my Mum, in under a…

Just over ten years ago James MacTaggart became the Master Distiller at Arran distillery and, in my humble opinion, has produced some very good whisky in that time. This whisky comes from first-fill…

I've come to enjoy the taste of pot still Irish quite a lot but it's not something I often turn to. I really should rectify that as, whilst I don't always find them to be completely absorbing, they are…