Oban is Gaelic for little bay, the name of this NAS-release that first appeared at the end of 2015. It matured on three types of casks (European sherry casks, refill casks with new oak heads and refill…

The Distiller’s Edition, which appears yearly, is a series of single malts from Diageo that got a second maturation on a special cask. In the case of this Oban, it was a Montilla Fino Sherry cask. Mon…

It had been quite a few years since I last tried the Oban 14 Year Old. Unwarranted neglect, I might add, for every time I try it, I quite like it.The nose has a malty heart with honey and citrus fruit…

In 2016 the Connemara Distillers Edition was first released, at a drinking strength of 43% (as opposed to 40% for the standard versions). It is surprisingly dark, so I guess more than just a few sherry…

The people of The Nectar have bottled quite a few Irish already, most of them veritable gems. This one was bottled as Anniversary Edition.Lovely exoctic nose on banana, mango, mandarin, bergamot, lime…

Since Beam took over Cooley several years ago, Connemara was put in new livery, but the typical shape of the bottle was kept (contrary to, for example, Kilbeggan). The Peated Single Malt, sometimes…

The people at Cooley boast the fact that they uphold the tradition of the Irish whisky industry and this Kilbeggan Traditional is the result. This blend is named after the distillery that was founded in…

Erik Molenaar, the man behind Kintra, is spending most of his time getting his own distillery Wagging Finger off the ground. His gin is a hit, but in the short term he also wants to distill his very own…

ALS is the abbreviation of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, a disease for which there is currently no cure. To sponsor research, some friends bottle a single cask of whisky of which part of the proceeds…

The Belgian importer The Nectar celebrates its 10th anniversary with a couple of nice new releases. One of those is this single bourbon cask from 2002 by the Irish label Teeling. The cask was bottled in…