At the foot of the Ben Rinnes Mountain you’ll find this distillery of the same name. Founded in 1826, completely washed away in the 1829 Great Speyside Floods and rebuilt in 1835, this is a lesser known…

Make no mistake, this is not whisky. This is still spirit. Yet it is named Young Single Malt. Well, as long as it does not say whisky on the label, there is apparently no legal issue. This is younger…

Like many a new distillery, the upstart Milk & Honey from Israel – the land of… - also has a new make commercially in the market. It was originally sold in bottles of 50cl and cut to 50%, but since last…

The Old Pulteney 25 Year Old matured in American oak for the first 22 years and was then allowed three more on oloroso sherry casks. It’s the successor of the Old Pulteney 21 Year Old that was named best…

Old Pulteney – until recently the most northern distillery on the Scottish mainland – has quite a few expressions in the Flotilla series. We will try the one distilled in 2005. It matured for ten years…

Blackadder – brainchild of the always crackin’ jokes Robin Tucek – are mostly known for their Raw Cask bottlings, in which some cask residue can be found, giving the malts an air of authenticity. This…

Gordon & Macphail has been a licensed bottler for Linkwood for decades and continues to be. This 15 Year Old is always available. I am trying a recent bottling from 2017, so this is a distillate from the…

After the rather disappointing Craigellachie 13 Year Old, I now have a bottle of their 17 Year Old in front of me. This also matured on American, albeit 4 more years. Hopefully this has resulted in a…

Craigellachie is a lesser known malt that was re-launched by the owners in the Last Great Malts series. Dewar’s & Sons presented their new line-up of this Speysider in 2014 with a 13, 17, 19 (travel…

I tried the 4th Edition of this Flaming Heart in 2013 and the 5th Edition in 2016. Today, the 6th Edition of this blended malt is in my glass. While the ABV remains the same, the composition is slighty…