The third bottle I have open from Thompson Bros is this bottle of SRV5 (Station Road Vat #5). It is a blended malt, with the constituent malts being at least 8 years old. The Thompson Bros use a Solera…
I brought this bottle via ballot in feb this year for the very reasonable price of £45. In the photo it is the bottle on the right with a bird on the label (it is a capercaillie, which is a reference…
This review will be the first of 3 reviews of bottles from the Independent Bottler 'Thompson Bros'.For those curious about this indy bottler here is a blog piece: https://88bamboo.co/blogs/whisky-rum-gin…
Ardnamurchan are a new distillery owned by the independent bottlers Adelphi. Adelphi have a lofty reputation as 'Indys' famed for sourcing good casks. Particularly Sherry casks. Their bottles tend to…
This review is of a dram from my own bottle I've had open about 3 months. The cask mix of batch 19 is 70% bourbon 30% Sherry (Springbank 12 used to originally be much more sherry cask forward).Nose (neat…
Thanks to @Timp I have a 50ml sample of batch 12 of what is probably my favourite 'bang for you buck' whisky Springbank 12 cask strength.Nose (neat) immediate peat on the nose. Some Springbank funk (hard…
This review is from a bottle I've had open for around 2 years now. I couldn't tell you how much is left in the bottle because they're a sodding jet black colour that no light will penetrate! From the…
This review is from a sample kindly provided by @Timp. I also have a bottle of a different Octomore release open so I'll be doing a comparison between the two.Nose (neat)Pretty much exactly as you'd…
This review is from a bottle I brought after I'd had a few sips from the sample of Bladnoch 10 kindly provided by @Timp. I decided to do a side by side between the 11 and the 10. The Bladnoch 11 is a…
This review is of a sample of the highly regarded Bladnoch 10 released in 2019 and now sadly no longer available. The sample was kindly provided by @Timp.NoseBest way I could describe this is it smells…