Last time I tried this young Bowmore, without age statement but with a strong name, was in 2010.The nose is soft on all kinds of citrus fruit, sweetened with loads of karamel and a lost litchi. The smoke…

The Nectar, Belgian importer of loads of spirits and organizer of the wonderful Spirits in the Sky festival, went all out for their 10th anniversary. Loads of special bottlings have been releases, too…

This sixth batch of Bowmore is new and only arrived in Belgium in the first week of November 2016. The nice thing about this is that was composed by Mariella Romano, the Specialty Drinks ambassador that…

We all know Elements of Islay from those wonderful apothecary bottles with their Mendeljev-like codes. Bw, for example, signifies Bowmore. This fourth batch is a vatting of four casks – two from 1995 and…

Bowmore surprises with this new release as it has an age statement of a single digit: 9 years. It was finished on sherry casks and is very friendly priced: around 35 to 40 EUR in my neck of the woods…

It’s not that easy to find a Signatory dumpy these days, let alone at an affordable price. But I was able to put my hands on this 20 years old Auchentoshan. 1984, however, is a year that is the equiva…

This bottling from Murray McDavid is gunned down by almost every blogger that I know for its bitterness and suphery traits, the broken marriage between the spirit and the wine. Climens is a Sauternes…

I’ve been told that Jack Wiebers actually has a history in the music business. He was once the agent for Michael Jackson (the popstar, not the whisky and beer author) during a tour through Europe. Be…

And this is the most recent single cask that the team at Warenghem Distillery have entrusted us with: a 14 year old Armorik that slumbered in an oloroso sherry cask and was bottled at a whopping 56,3%…

I tried this cask at a tasting in October 2015, where I truly got to know Armorik and basically fell in love with the whisky. It is with great pleasure that I return to this particular single cask, which…