Eiling Lim – aka Mrs Luc Timmersmans – is a rising star among independent bottlers. In 2015 she released a 23 Year Old Auchentoshan from the very good vintage 1992, but before I noticed it was around,…

One of my friends had the luck to attend the impressive whisky school at Springbank. This, of course, also meant he took part in a warehouse tour where they have a lot more cask slumbering away than…

Now that is a Golden Oldie from my beloved Lowlander. Distilled in 1974 – I was four! – and bottled in the year I turned 21. It was the 5th single cask of Auchentoshan bottled by the Scotch Malt Whisky…

First Cask has bottled quite a few Auchentoshan already, including 6 sister casks from 1981. This is cask #1159, which I discovered on the table at The Whisky Mercenary’s booth at the recent whisky…

The Warehouse Range from German bottler Malts of Scotland always bottles lovely, special and very high quality single casks. It makes me happy that they found this beautiful Auchentoshan, despite its…

At the end of the 1980s my beloved Auchentoshan bottled this 10 Year Old for Scottish Power. It was given out as a gift to their employees, with a matching decanter. The contents, however, is their…

Carn Mor has launched a new series under the banner Strictly Single Cask. The first Lowlander is this 5 years old Auchentoshan, cut to 50%. It was distilled on 30th May 2013 and bottle on the 29th Oct…

Gordon & Macphail have some 50 releases of Rosebank so far, but the last time they bottled a cask of this closed Lowlander is a few years ago already. This release appeared over 10 years ago in their…

It had been way too long since I last tried a Rosebank. The news that Ian MacLeod’s plans to reopen Rosebank have been approved, has put this legendary Lowlander back on my radar. Happy dance. This is…

Djeez, to think that this was released in 2011 and only now do I get a chance to try it – thanks to my buddy Imanuel. This Littlemill was selected by Luc Timmermans for his so-called Handwritten Labels…