First off, a big thanks to @cricklewood for this sample. I was also very lucky to have been gifted a bottle of the 12 around five years ago and thought it was unusual whisky, but still very good. My…

This is my second bottle of NFTB and I have to say I really enjoyed my first bottle. I picked this one up a couple of years back now and this has been open a good few months at least.Review is neat,…

This is a late 2020 bottling of the flagship, age-stated malt from the only (for now) distillery on the Isle of Arran. I have to note that it is distinctly darker than the last bottle I bought (with the…

My quest to find the best 15 year old sherried Scotch had led me to a show down between this and the Tamdhu 15. All of this now seems a little moot since Glendronach appears to have had somewhat of a…

I can't profess to be the biggest fan of sherried whiskies, but I have to acknowledge that, when they work, they can be exquisite. So, with that in mind, I always approach buying such whiskies with…

This is a 35cl bottle from the late 80's, bottled for the 500th anniversary of Scotch Whisky and was an Italian import. I picked this up at auction and it came in a larger pack with an information…

Another sample courtesy of @wierdo, cheers mate! I'm getting a bit of a back log developing re. samples and thought this would be a nice, mellow way to get back on the malts after a wee lay off.So a…

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…