This is the first Auchentoshan bottled by the German indie Maltbarn. The Lowlander was distilled in 1992. It matured for the full 23 years on a bourbon cask, which then yielded 134 bottles at cask str…

The Old Malt Cask series is currently part of Hunter Laing, the bottler that was founded after the brothers Fred and Stewart Laing split (leaving Fred with Douglas Laing). This Auchentoshan was presented…

I tried a single cask Auchentoshan from the German bottler Anam na h-Alba (meaning ‘the soul of Scotland) before and thought it was magnificent. That was a refill sherry hogshead. Now comes along a…

I have already tried two great Auchentoshan from Pearls of Scotland. At the Antwerp Whisky Festival this one was presented to me. Would I like to try it? Does a cow give milk? It was distilled in Sept…

McCrae's is, for me at least, not a very known bottler. I have so far only tasted their 22 Year Old Caol Ila, which I liked a lot. At the Antwerp Whisky Festival (organized by the shop Anverness), a…

The Dutch club Usquebaugh Society surprised me pleasantly before with their Millstone Rye and a fantastic Glen Garioch, but their club bottling for 2016 is a young Tomatin from 2004, matured on a first…

The German Limburg Dramclub has quite a few bottlings on their résume, but this is the first time they bottle a Tomatin. If I remember one thing about Tomatin, it’s that it never disappoints, either…

We will have to be patient until October 2017 to taste the first single malt from this new English distillery, but their spirit was already presented at the whisky festival in Belgium. I tried their 1…

The Czech whisky Hammerhead 1989 has reached 25 years of age and was bottled in a fairly pleasing bottle at 40,7%. Commercially cut in fact, as the 20 and 23 year old had the same ABV. Hammerhead, by the…

I had tried this one some five years ago, but it gives me great pleasure to revisit it. It was bottled in 2009 and was a one off release of 3000 bottles. It was distilled from locally grown barley from…