When we launched our Arran 20 Year Old 1996 for MMM, we were the first to bottle an Arran single cask at that age and at cask strength, something we are very proud of. Much later we found out that we…

When I saw this Arran from 1997 at a whisky festival, Jan Beckers – the ambassador for Douglas Laing – told me I just had to try it, so I allowed him to fill up my sample bottle. Today I took it out of…

In 2014 a limited edition of the Arran 17 Year Old was released. I find it surprisingly dark, actually.Great nose on candied fruit and brown sugar, green apples, blood oranges, a hint of pear drops,…

The 10 Year Old is part of Arran’s standard range for many years now and I have been fortunate enough (yeah, well) to try it before. I found it to be okay-ish. Let’s see what this newer release from 2014…

Kirsch Whisky Import – a German independent bottler – selected thsi sherry butt from the Signatory warehouse. No less than 676 bottles were drawn from it. The contents: a Clynelish of 18 years old from…

The Vintage Collection by Signatory is somewhat lesser known, but does not contain any lesser malts. Take this Clynelish 1998, for example, bottled at drinking strength in 2016. Two hogsheads were mar…

Clynelish 1997... that in itself already sounds magical to my ears. I have been fortunate enough to have tried many Clynelish of that vintage and so far it has always been a party. The expectations for…

Seven years…that is how long it has been since I last tried the standard bottling of Clynelish. And since I have three sparring partners – all of them from Signatory by the way – I felt it was a good…

Believe it or not, this is the very first time that I taste a Kininvie single malt! I tried it first at the Antwerp Whisky & Spirits Festival and took home a sample. I was really pleasantly surprised …

The first thing you notice is the wonderfully shaped bottle which seems to have been taken from the set dressing of the famous Downton Abbey series. Very Art Deco, if you ask me. But let me add immedi…