At a nice Kilchoman tasting back in May 2017, James Wills brought a cask sample at cask strength from a Kilchoman that was maturing on a red wine cask. It was some sort of avant-premiere of the Kilchoman…

In May 2017 I had the good fortune to taste a cask strength sample from one of the casks that was to become part of this new Kilchoman 2009 Vintage Release. After several months in the marrying tun, the…

I took part in a lovely Kilchoman tasting led by the always funny James Wills, son of Kilchoman founder Anthony. He had brought a little something special for the occasion: a cask sample from a cask that…

I was pleasantly surprised with the two new releases by Belgian bottler Brachadair, who previously treated us to some great single casks: Arran, Braeval, Clynelish, Laphroaig, Linkwood and Mortlach. His…

Ah, Littlemill, always fun. It is also one of the few distilleries of which you can be absolutely sure that the bottles will rise in value. Stocks are still being bottled, but they sell so fast that you…

Littlemill recently released a new official 27 Year Old. It was dubbed Private Cellar Edition and comes in a beautiful chest with a miniature and a piece of stave. Pricetag: £2.250. Now, even though the…

The yearly Distillers Edition from Diageo is a speciale release of their malts, in which the whisky has been double matured. For Glenkinchie, this was a maturation on bourbon casks, before a second…

It had already been 8 years since I last tried the Glenkinchie 12. That may seems like a very long time (well, it is…), but that has everything to do with the fact that this malt does not have a very…

Bladnoch, near Wigtown in the Lowlands, has a bit of a rough recent history. The Irishman Raymond Armstrong reopened it in 2000 but had to close it in 2014 – on the court’s order – after a dispute with…

Blackadder, the label from the foulmouthed but very funny Robin Tucek, already has some Auchentoshan on its resume. No less than 7 releases already in their Raw Cask series, which is known for the cask…