Duncan Taylor has a series called ‘The Octave’, in which the whisky matures (or is finished) in smaller casks. Maturation is faster as there is more contact between the spirit and the wood. Hence the…

After the success of the 8-part series Lads of Lobland, the Belgian Bring Your Own Bottle Club – ‘biopsy’ for short – started a new series under the banner ‘Mobsters on Mopeds’. I just love that label…

I discovered this Glen Keith at the whiskyfestival Sprits in the Sky in November 2018. It was however bottled for the Whisky Fair in Germany. Apparently a few bottles found their way to my neck of the…

The Italian/Scottish duo that runs the independent bottler Valinch & Mallet are very picky about the individual casks they select for bottling. Only when both are absolutely convinced, will they put it…

Passion for Whisky is a well-known Dutch liquor store. Crazy Bert works with them for the first time with this very limited (only 42 bottles) Glen Keith. It cost around 150 EUR but – as is usually the…

This is the 8th and final release in the Lads of Lobland series by the Belgian Bring Your Own Bottle Club – or BYOB-C (‘biopsy’). It was bottled in collaboration with Liquid Art. They chose a Speysider…

The GlenDronach 16 Year Old Platinum is a little known release from this Speysider which, next to a general release, also saw a special release for Germany, Taiwan and South Africa. Thanks to The Bonding…

The GlenDronach is hailed by many is one of the best malts this Speyside distillery has brought to the market. The fact that some releases contain much older whisky – because of depleted stocks of 15…

Auchroisk (pronounced ‘o-thrusjk’) is one of the lesser known distilleries, founded in 1974 to create bulk malt for the blenders with Justerini & Brooks as primary client. Luckily it is sometimes also…

The Diageo Special Releases are back! Always a bit of a feast for whisky lovers, I think. I’ll try one of them, but one that was released several years ago. This Cragganmore 1988 was released in 2014…