Convalmore was closed in 1985. The site is in ruins. While the brand Convalmore remained with Diageo, the buildings were sold to William Grants & Sons, who still use the warehouses today. This Rare Malts…

The Rare Malts Selection saw the light of day in 1995 by the Scottish Malt Distillers, the precursor to Diageo. Initially it comprised releases from the ’70s, ‘80s and ‘90s distillates from mostly closed…

Next to the Eddu Grey Rock – a blended grain – the distillery also has the Grey Rock Brocéliande, Silver, Silver Brocéliande, Gold and Ed Gwenn. Let’s try the Silver, which is a single grain, distilled…

The French Distillerie des Menhirs can be found near Plomelin, Brittany, a bit south of Quimper and not too far from the Gulf of Biscaya. It was already founded in 1986 by Guy de Lay, who distilled…

We all know Compass Box for their Spice Tree, The Peat Monster and the likes, but enfant terrible of the whisky industry John Glaser has bottled quite a few other fun whiskies as well. Today we will try…

This is the oldest official bottling of Caol Ila and was released by Diageo in 2014 in their yearly Special Release. With a price tag of around 600 EUR, it is not exactly a cheap bottle, but thanks to…

Cruach-Mhòna is Gaelic for ‘peatstack’, so I suppose this is going to be a heavily peated Bunna. It comes in 1 liter bottles for travel retail. I tried it for the first time in 2011, but this is a bot…

This Limited Release from Bunnahabhain was distilled on the 24th March 2003 and bottled on 21st June 2017, making it a 14 year old. It matured on 2nd fill sherry casks and was then finished for 3 (!)…

The adventure of the Smoking Buffalo started in 2011 with the release of a 10 years old Bowmore. Now the 9th edition has appeared in this series of peaty malts in honor of Belgium’s first class football…

Aultmore is a lesser known Speysider that was only ‘revived’ a couple of years ago by owners Dewar’s & Sons in the so-called The Last Great Malts series. For Mark & Manny’s Malts it is an honor to be…