CaskAid is an npo that selects single casks, bottles them and donates the proceeds to a charity. Drinking whisky for a good cause? What’s not to like? This is already their 23rd release. It’s a Ballechin…

Ballechin is the lesser known, peaty brother of Edradour. Whatever bottler you see on the label, obviously the casks come from Signatory, as this company run by Andrew Symington, owns the Edradour dis…

And then there is also the 20 Year Old Old Perth. I will not make another guess as to its components, for the sympathetic but strong headed Kenny Mackay will do as he pleases, in my experience.Fantastic…

The Old Perth 19 Year Old is a blended malt consisting of Bowmore, Glen Garioch and Auchentoshan. Note: the spirit was actually brought together in one cask in 1998. Blended at birth is the term. After…

According to several sources, the blended malt Old Perth NAS – depending on the version and in different measures – contains mostly Aultmore, Mortlach, Tomatin and Ben Nevis. I have no idea if that is…

When I learned that Asta Morris was about to launch another Glen Keith 1994, I was already wringing my hands in anticipation. After all, the previous release about a year ago, was truly fabulous – but…

If the label says Orkney, it’s a safe bet it’s an undisclosed Highland Park. That is certainly the case for this bottling from Asta Morris. The malt escaped from the cask at the beginning of this year…

I’ve heard people pronounce the name of this distillery in many different ways, but apparently ‘Glen-toch-ers’ is the only correct one. It was founded near Keith, in the heart of Speyside, in 1897 by…

Milltonduff from Elgin is another one of those noble unknowns. Like Glenburgie, it is one of the more important malts in the famous blend Ballentine’s. And like Glenburgie, it really is worth getting to…

It is public knowledge that Bert Bruyneel has a fondness for BenRiach. For the longest time, he was a well-known collector of this Speysider. In the early days of his company Asta Morris, he even rele…