The American Oak from Auchentoshan has been around for a while (2014) and is their entry level malt. It is composed with whisky that matured – as the name suggests – on American oak. This American Oak…

On a blue Monday this Halloween edition from Douglas Laing was announced on social media, but by the time yours truly got home after a hard day’s work (yeah, right) it was already sold out. Darn. But I…

Belgian bottler The Nectar introduced a whole range of new single casks in Paris and – hurray – one of them is an Auchentoshan. But I confess: the price tag of around 280 EUR made me hesitant to buy a…

Der Feinschmecker is a German (online) deli & gourmet shop that bottles spirits exclusively from time to time. No less than 10 single malts have already been bottled for them by the German bottler Malts…

Every time Auchentoshan opens a new cask for the visitors, I’m right there to order a few bottles. For each and every one of them is good to excellent. Having said that, I do not have an open bottle of…

In my book, this is now a golden oldie. I have had it in my collection for a while, but only the one bottle so I have not yet tried it. Thanks to social media I found someone offering up samples (in one…

I tried this malt years ago for the first time during a whisky dinner in The Hielander, the famous Scottish restaurant in Alkmaar, Holland, with the indomitable Wullie Macmorland behind the stove. I was…

Whivie – Whisky Voor Iedereen, which is Dutch for ‘whisky is for everyone’ – is my personal whisky blog and it celebrates its 10th anniversary. Obviously this is something I cannot let pass without…

In 1964 Inver House Distillers built a grain distillery on the industrial estate Moffat at Airdrie, some 20 kilometers east of Glasgow. The grain whisky would be called Garnheath. But like at many grain…

Brora, having been founded in 1819, celebrates its 200th anniversary. In style, mind you, and even that is an understatement. They released 1819 bottles of a Brora 40 Year Old 1978 in a box that will…