This Caol Ila hit the Belgian market last year. The single cask was bottled for my little country, 233 bottles strong.At first whiff, the nose does not really remind me of Caol Ila. The maritime elements…

This 14 Year Old Caol Ila Hermitage Wine Casks Finish from 2001 was released in Gordon & Macphail’s Private Collection series, in which only exclusive casks that were chosen by the G&M management are…

Douglas Laing used to work (do they still?) with these so-called Advance Cask Samples, whisky in 200ml bottles that would (but not always) later appear in full bottles. This 10 year old Caol Ila pre…

This little bottle has been gathering dust in my cabinet for quite a while. I bought it at the end of April 2010 after a Carn Mor Vintage tasting. Maybe it got overlooked because of its size? Anyway,…

The Dark Cove is the long awaited and seriously hyped new Ardbeg Day 2016 release. We are talking the general release here, not the Committee Release at 55% with the pale label. It was sold through the…

After a regular maturation on European oak, this GlenDronach got a finish on Madeire hogsheads. If you know that GlenDronach went silent in 1995 and only re-opened in 2004, then you realize that this is…

BenRiach already has quite a few peated expressions and a few years ago there was a Glenglassaugh Torfa. So it comes as no surprise that Billy Walker and his team decided to release a peated version of…

You see this more often than not: distilleries that start to experiment with peated barley. The Tasmanian Hellyers Road is no exception. They have both a Lightly Peated and this 9 Year Old Peated on the…

The first cask of this Tasmanian distillery was put to sleep on 29th January 1999. That is why they were able to reveal their 10 Year Old a few years ago. It is, obviously, part of their core range.Just…

Hellyers Road is a distillery on the northern coast of Tasmania. So we are in Australia, on the other end of the world, where the climate is very different than that of Scotland. The distillery has only…