During our quasi-private tour at Highland Park in September 2022, we tasted this 10-year-old during the introduction video. Since I was given a so-called 'driver's kit', I can taste it at home at my…

This limited edition of Belgian distiller Braeckman from Oudenaarde was produced from both malt and rye. It was first matured in first fill bourbon barrels and then finished another 6 months in heavily…

A Secret Islay from 1989... that's over 30 years old, mind you! And here, too, this is not this bottler’s first rodeo. I'm very late with my tasting notes – the bottle hasn't been available anywhere for…

We previously tasted some Secret Speyside from The Whisky Jury, but fortunately Joeri makes it a bit easy for us to find out which distillery made this liquid. You only have to look at the label and…

'Isn't Joeri starting to exaggerate a bit now?', was my first thought when I read that he was going to bring another Ben Nevis to the market. After all, it's already his 6th if I'm not mistaken. Anyway…

The MacPhail's Collection is, as you can no doubt guess, a label of independent bottler Gordon & Macphail. One of the bottlings in that excellent series is this Tamdhu from 1971. Mind you, this was…

This young Teaninich was bottled by Phil and Simon Thompson for the bar of the Dornoch Castle, the luxurious hotel run by their parents (and where I visit along with Dearly Beloved and Manny in September…

This Tomintoul was bottled in the famous Celebration of the Cask series. I got the sample pressed into my hands by my Dutch buddy Manny, thanks for that! The angels have been fairly greedy to say the…

It was way back in 2013 that I last tasted the Tullibardine 20. One of the exhibitors at the MEUG Rooftop Festival had a recent bottling with him and I thought it would be a good idea to revisit this…

Belgian bottler Klubb23 was able to get its hands on a special cask of Tomintoul. Monbazillac, ladies and gentlemen. A noble sweet white wine from the south of France, below Bergerac, east of Bordeaux…