The third experiment – the Winter Storm – took the shelves by storm (see what I did there?) and sold out in a matter of days. Even batch 02 is hard to find, but not worries: batch 03 is underway. What…

The story of the second release in the Experimental Series is a fun one. The 20 Glenfiddich ambassadors (hence the XX and fingerprint on the bottle) were given an assignment without any further instru…

Glenfiddich introduced the so-called Experimental Series, in which the classic malt gets an extra twist. In the case of the first release, the Glenfiddich IPA, the company asked the Speyside Craft Bre…

This Ledaig – distilled in 1983 – is all but gone. You cannot find it anywhere. It was bottled in 2002. My good friend Timon of PROOF gave me a sample. Mind you: this is from his personal collection, so…

Whisky Troef – a Belgian whisky club – celebrated their 5th anniversary in 2017. To celebrate, they turned to the Whisky Mercenary for a festive bottling. They selected this Ledaig 10 Year Old.Oh, yes…

To be honest, I am not well versed in Tobermory (if we mean the unpeated version and not Ledaig of which I have tried many more). This is only my 8th in approx. 3500 whiskies tasted. Why is that? Is…

In 2011 Burn Stewart – owners of Tobermory – decided to bottle their malts at 46.3%, making chill filtration superfluous. Today I got my hands on an older dumpy bottling at 40%.The nose is very sweet on…

During a recent spring clean, I went through my collection of miniatures and came across this one: the Tobermory Blended Scotch Whisky. Wait… what? Blended? Yup. A bottling from the 1980s, it would seem…

May of this year saw the release of the outstanding Johnnie Walker Blue Label Ghost & Rare with Brora. That it would be followed by a Blue Label centered around that other trophy malt from Diageo – Port…

I had tried this one before, but a different batch and over 5 years ago. So when my whisky buddy Benny offered me a sample of this bottle, I gratefully accepted it. The tea clipper Cutty Sark, for which…