In Spring 2017, there was much ado about this Highland Black 8 Year Old, a blend that – according to the international press – took home the top award in a blind tasting. Top award? It got a silver medal…

I previously tasted the first three batches and recently – at a tasting in Ghent – batch 6, the most recent at this point. I had not yet been able to get my hands on batch 4 or 5. But now I’m halfway…

This limited edition for the Danish market was released in 2016 and is (for the moment?) the last one in the so-called Star Wars series. Because of the light blue label, this one was dubbed Luke Skywa…

In 2015 the successor of the so-called Darth Vader hit the market. This Yoda, because of the color of the label reminds you of the lightsaber (or is it his skin?) of the diminutive Jedi Master, matured…

I took part in a veritable Star Wars tasting at a friend’s place in January 2017. Next to an Imperial and two of my own Save Lars bottlings, three beautiful GlenDronach were opened. Those were released…

Blanton's Straight from the Barrel is a special release by Buffalo Trace, launched in 1984 by master distiller Elmer T. Lee. It was – at the time – the first single barrel bourbon ever. By now that has…

Russell's Reserve refers to Jimmy Russell who has been master distiller at Wild Turkey for over 60 years. He son is also master distiller (the apple and the tree…) there, making Wild Turkey the only…

Six years seems young, but for an American whiskey, that is already quite well matured. This Pikesville is a straight rye whiskey, which means the main ingredient is rye, in this case upholstered with…

Malts of Scotland, the famous German independent bottler, for a while now no longer limits itself to Scotch whisky. They have travelled across the Atlantic and already bottled quite a few casks from…

A place that you would not immediately associate with whiskey is Philadelphia. Yet that is where the Cooper Spirits Company was founded in 2006. They call themselves ‘makers of rare and fine spirits’.…