Blood Oranges Auchentoshan Blood Oak
Strangely enough it took quite some doing to get this bottle to me, but in the end we found it… in a Belgian shop. Weird, as this is supposed to be a limited edition for Global Travel Retail. Anyway, it…
Strangely enough it took quite some doing to get this bottle to me, but in the end we found it… in a Belgian shop. Weird, as this is supposed to be a limited edition for Global Travel Retail. Anyway, it…
This is already the fourth Auchentoshan that Douglas Laing releases in their celebrated Old Particular range. It is also the oldest in the series with its 17 years of maturation on a refill hogshead.Ha…
Distiller's Art is a new series by Langside Distillers (which is part of Hunter Laing), which releases single cask bottlings. So far there have been an Allt-a-Bhainne, Blair Athol, Braeval, Clynelish,…
The official 10 Year Old was just fine. Let us see if the 12 Year Old, bottled way back in 1996, does any better.Apple juice, orange juice and sweet malt. That is the essence of this very simple nose.…
Berry Brothers & Rudd from London has already brought six Auchentoshan to the market. This is one of their more recent releases, a 17 Year Old from 1996. The pale color strongly suggests a bourbon cask…
No less than 2.880 bottles were filled from this sherry cask. Milroy’s of Soho limited itself to bottling miniature. For those who are not familiar with Milroy’s: it is one of London’s well-known whisky…
This young Caol Ila is only six years old. It was distilled in the autumn of 2008 and bottled in the summer of 2014. It is a vatting of two bourbon casks. It was labeled ‘Young & Feisty’. I am sure i…
Old Malt Cask is a series from Douglas Laing (at least it used to be, nowadays it belongs to Hunter Laing) in which some exceptionally good, mostly older, malts are bottled at the golden drinking stre…
The Nectar of the Daily Drams is a well-known Belgian importer and bottler. Last year they launched this Caol Ila 1995 at cask strength. It is quite a pale animal.The classic traits of Caol Ila emerge…
I have to admit that until recently I had not even heard of this bottler: John McCrae & Co from Glasgow. They only have two casks on their resumé so far, both bottled in 2014 and both exclusively for the…