The English Cotswolds distillery was founded in 2014. By now the first malt has been released, but before getting to that, I first would like to try the new make spirit. This particular lot was distilled…

Aultmore was only really put on the market as single malt in 2014 when owner Dewar’s & Sons launched the so-called Last Great Malts series. Highlight of that series is a 25 years old. But today I find…

To celebrate their 5th anniversary, the Belgian whisky club Whiskytroef (which translates into whisky trump) bottled this young Aultmore from 2006. Only 30 bottles? That must be a shared cask, which is…

Flander’s Finest Cask Selection – a Flemish collective of whisky retailers – regularly travels to Pitlochry to visit the warehouses of Signatory. They clearly know what they are doing, as I already…

The Nectar, one of the most important importers on the Belgian market, bottled this 20 years old Glenlossie through Signatory, the famous independent bottler from Pitlochry. The hogshead yielded 308…

Glenlossie from the Speyside produces almost exclusively for the blending industry. You can count official releases on one hand (litteraly, there are 5). Hence this malt is not so well-known with a…

My buddy Marcel is one of the lucky few (?) that purchased a cask of Ardnamurchan. He travels to Scotland from time to time to taste a sample. Contrary to the two official releases of spirit so far,…

If all goes well, we’ll have some true single malt from Ardnamurchan next year. After all, this distillery in the Highlands, owned by Adelphi, put the first spirit in cask at the end of 2014. This second…

It is going to be a while before we get a single malt from this Highland distillery, but like many new players, they also released some of their spirit. On the one hand it enables us to sample something…

Macduff, founded in 1962, is one of Scotland’s youngest distilleries. It was built specifically to provide malt for the famous blend William Lawson’s. But the malt is also released as a single. For the…