This Glen Scotia comes in the new, very nice bottle (a welcome change from the weird bottles with the psychedelic colors and cows) and was bottle at drinking strength in 2015. It matured in American Oak…

Since 1996, Glen Scotia is in the hands of Loch Lomond Company. In my opinion it is still trying to find its own identity, judging by the rate at which the packaging changes look. More than 3 times in…

Every year, there is also a Season’s Greetings edition of the Campbeltown Loch for Christmas. Thanks to my buddy Pat, I was able to get a hold of the 2016 release. It is clearly darker than the rather…

Campbeltown Loch is marketed by J & A Mitchell. They are also the owners of the Springbank and Glengyle distilleries. Insiders say this affordable blend is created with the single malts Springbank and…

Hazelburn was a distillery in Campbeltown that produced exactly 100 years, from 1825 to 1925. And while she has now been closed for nearly a century, a single malt of the same name has been produced at…

Campbeltown Commermoration is a series from the 1980s by Eaglesome Ltd, consisting of 5cl miniatures. It is an homage to the different distilleries from Campbeltown such as Albyn, Ardlussa, Argyll,…

This 17 Year Old Springbank matured solely on sherry casks and was bottled at cask strength. It appeared early 2015 and is quite hard to find nowadays (there were only some 9000 bottles worldwide after…

In 2014 Springbank released 2 malts that were distilled from organic barley. However – contrary to some other distilleries – Springbank did not get the certifications to put ‘organic’ on their labels,…

I have tried previous batches of Springbank CV and must say, I was not impressed. A good whisky, sure, but far from outstanding for this legendary Campbeltown distillery. But when a 2013 release sample…

The German Malts of Scotland bottled its first Glenburgie in 2017. They went ahead and bottled two casks: a bourbon hogshead from 1995 and a sherry hogshead from 2008. I will try the oldest of the two…