In 2018 Lagavulin launched for the third festival an a row and 18 Year Old (for Feis Ile 2019 it was a 19 years old and I presume that trend will continue). I had to admit that those Feis Ile release,…

The Peat Faerie is a blended malt from the famous Scotch Malt Whisky Society. This 7 years old is the fourth batch and was discovered by their tasting panel during the concoction of the previous batch…

This brand new Kilchoman matured on STR casks. STR is short for ‘shaved, toasted, re-charred’, so that gives you an idea what happened to the casks. After 7 years of maturation no less than 14.500 bot…

Viking Line from Finland is a ferry service in Scandinavia. They often offer exclusive single casks on their ships. This is one of those: a Kilchoman 5 Year Old 2007 single sherry cask.The peat smoke is…

For Feis Ile 2018 Kilchoman vatted 4 bourbon barrels, which resulted in a limited release of 744 bottles which sold out in a flash. Thanks to the Whisky Amigos (Belgian friends) I was able to get one.…

Murray McDavid is the property of Aceo Ltd for a few years now. They took it over from Mark Reynier, former owner of Bruichladdich Distillery. This is an older bottling. The cask was selected by Mark…

I have had the pleasure of hanging out with the sympathetic Thompson brothers on a few occasions. Simon and Philip not only run the upstart Dornoch Distillery (that reminds me I still have their first…

For Feis Ile 2018 Bunnahabhain released two different bottles: a 10 years old on oloroso and a 15 years old on Spanish oak. I was able to get my hands on a bottle of the former, the 10 Year Old Moine,…

We know Adelphi not only as the independent bottler, but also as the people behind the Ardnamurchan Distillery. As bottlers, they have almost every distillery on the market, always in single cask, wit…

The Bowmore Vinter’s Trilogy is – as the name suggest – a trilogy of Bowmore with a link to wine. The three releases are the Bowmore 18 Manzanilla cask (sitting in front of me right now), the Bowmore 26…