Macduff, founded in 1962, is one of Scotland’s youngest distilleries. It was built specifically to produced enough malt for the famous blend of Willam Lawson’s. But she also markets her malt as single…

This single cask of peated BenRiach is part of the Single Cask Release Batch #13. The malt was finished on an oloroso sherry butt. It has a lovely dark color. Almost 600 bottles were released at cask…

Single Malts of Scotland is a subsidiary of Specialty Drinks, owner Sukhinder Singh who is also the strong man behind the London company The Whisky Exchange. This bottle was already released in 2008, but…

This BenRiach is part of the Single Cask Release Batch #13. Almost 700 bottles strong, but you know that a sherry puncheon is quite a big cask. The whisky matured for 16 years.The nose is surprisingly…

Premium Spirits, the former Belgian importer under the stewardship of the always charming Claudia Hamm, selected this bourbon cask matured Benriach, which yielded 220 bottles at cask strength. Sweet malt…

Premium Spirits is the former Belgian importer of BenRiach. So it comes as no surprise that from time to time a cask is bottled for them. This port cask yielded 274 bottles at cask strength. The copper…

I am not very fond of the BenRiach Curiositas to be honest. That probably explains why I have not tried it since 2010. My buddy Pat gave me a sample from a more recent bottling and told me to give it…

Like many distilleries, Arran too has a peated version, that was dubbed Machrie Moor, named after the peat fields on the island. The label shows Bran, a dog that – as legend would have it – was chained…

When I tried the first Arran Devil’s Punch Bowl, now more than 4 years ago, I was qutie impressed. Unfortunately I missed the second release, but thanks to my buddy Manny I was able to get a generous…

The Nectar presented this single cask of Arran from 1996 at the most recent edition of the Spirits in the Sky festival, last November. After the maginificent Arran 1996 that Manny and I bottled ourselves…