The bottler behind The Single Malts of Scotland is Elexir Distillers – formerly Specialty Drinks – that also owns The Whisky Exchange and is currently building a distillery on Islay. Anyway, we were able…

Acorn is and independent bottler from Sadako City, Saitama… Yup, that is in Japan! Their bottlings have recently become available in Holland, Germany, Australia and Taiwan. This young Caol Ila from 2011…

In the weeks of the release of a great Miltonduff 2011, Glentauchers 2009 and Glen Keith 1994, Asta Morris also launched another sherry matured Caol Ila. Guess what? Most retailers showed ‘sold out’…

When Bert Bruyneel launches a Caol Ila, you had better get your skates on. Mostly the bottles are sold out before I even get the change to order one. This is one of those releases – albeit 580 bottles…

The Connoisseurs Choice from Gordon & Macphail has some new livery since a couple of months. Today I will try a 14 years old bottled at 45%, finished on Hermitage Wood for a year. Hermitage is a wine…

I had to wait for it for a little while, but thanks to a Scottish pal I was finally able to get my hands on this Feis Ile 2019 release from my favorite distillery on Islay: Caol Ila. Very refreshing to…

Rock Hill Farms – named after a famous piece of farmland along the Kentucky River – is produced at the Buffalo Trace Distillery in Frankfort, Kentucky. They use Mash Bill #2, for what it’s worth. I can…

I have not tried that many Jim Beam – I hear little good about it and my own experience corroborates this – but a single barrel? That cannot be bad, can it? Otherwise the powers that be surely would not…

This Double Oak version from Jim Beam was launched in 2016. As the name suggests it is matured in not one, but two barrels, freshly charred.The nose is honeysweet on vanilla sugar, caramel, hint of fruit…

Bulleit (say, ‘bullet’, like the ammunition) was marketed between 1830 and 1860 by Augustus Bulleit, but when the creator died, the brand died with him. It was revived by his great-great-grandson Tom…