Glen Scotia is always a bit exciting for me, for it is often (in my opinion) hit or miss. And I have had as many hits as misses with this malt from Campbeltown, so there you go… This young single cask…

A new Belgian bottler has emerged! B’s Choice. B is none other than Bart Heggerick, better known as one of the strong men behind the Smoking Buffalo series. But now he has his own label. Time to make an…

Neither Signatory nor The Nectar need an introduction, I think. So we’ll skip those pleasantries and move on to the bottle at hand: a Glenturret from 1988 that matured for no less than 29 years and was…

Glenturret boasts being the oldest distillery of Scotland – founded in 1775 under the name The Hosh – and is the spiritual home of The Famous Grouse. In 2015 Glenturret jumped on the NAS-bandwagon with…

Edrington sold their Black Bottle to Burn Stewart in 2003. They created the Black Grouse as a replacement and went a step further in 2012 with this Black Grouse Alpha Edition. It contains even more peaty…

The Naked Grouse was reinvented last summer. It still comes in the same beautiful bottle, but now it is a blended malt (so no grain in the mix) and composed only of sherry matured whisky. Insiders claim…

What little credit whiskyguru Jim Murray and his Whisky Bible still enjoyed, melted like snow in the sun when he named this Crown Royal Northern Harvest Rye Best Whisky in the World in 2016. I was not…

Lot No 40 released its first cask strength edition in 2017, with an age statement of 12 years. Just a few bottles shy of 5000 were released. Thanks to my buddy Robert from Québec, I was able to give this…

Lot No 40 is a cheap rye whisky that was awarded ‘Best Canadian Whisky’ twice already (albeit at the Canadian Whisky Awards, first in 2013 and again in 2016 – funnily enough the year in which Jim Murray…

Every year bourbon lovers from around the world look forward to the Antique Collection in which 5 bourbons are released, i.e. Thomas H. Handy, Sazerac, George T Stagg, Eagle Rare and this William Larue…