A.D. Rattray is known for bottling single casks at cask strength. In this case it’s a young Glenrothes on sherry that yielded no less than 607 bottles at a whopping 64.3%. Surely the spirit went into the…

I read in Ingvar Ronde’s Malt Whisky Yearbook that Edrington has plans to make Glenrothes their next ‘Premium Spirit’. Usually that means bottlings at higher age, but also much higher prices. Think…

For the 100th jubilee of the Dutch importer De Monnik Dranken, the distillery manager Robbie Hughes selected this single cask from 2015. It was presented a little over a year ago, but only now reached…

With The Legacy Glengoyne launches a series of whisky’s that tells the story of the distillery. We can expect a new Chapter every year. This is the first from 2019, dedicated to Cochrane Cartwright, the…

Well, then, here is the sixth and final sister cask from this series that I will be trying. Again one of those first fill sherry casks at extremely high ABV, filled in March 2007 and bottled in November…

This is already the 6th sister cask that I try from this series, all from the stables of Signatory. This cask was filled on the 27th of March 2007 (just like cask #900130 for Getränkenwelt Weiser &…

Just a few weeks ago I tried a couple of these malts that were delicious, each and every one. I’m talking about the sister casks from 2007 with numbers starting with #900xxx. I tasted 181 for The Nectar…

Berry Bros & Rudd is operating from the same buildign in St James’s Street in the heart of London since the 17th Century and bottles whisky under their own label. One of their series is called Berrys’…

This Glenlivet is of a whole other caliber. While also from a first fill sherry cask, this was a butt that yielded almost 700 bottles at drinking strength and matured for almost two decades. Rather pale…

Quite a few Glenlivet 2007 on first fill sherry have been bottled recently, all of them from the warehouses of Signatory. Van Wees bottled a few, including sisters casks #900148 and #900149 at cask…