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…

Glenturret is not exactly a well-known malt, even though you can easily get it. But when I say Famous Grouse, that will surely ring a bell. This famous blend has its home base at Glenturret. When you…

This 18 Year Old Glenturret was already bottled in 1990, meaning it is a distillate of the late ‘70s – of last century, obviously.The nose starts off pleasant enough with sweet malt, apples and oranges…

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…

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 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…

The Un-Chillfiltered Collection from Signatory is always bottled without chill filtration (doh!) and at a drinking strength of 46%. Signatory married three casks for this release of 729 bottles. This…

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…

Carn Mor already has quite a few releases under the label Strictly Limited, which is usually a vatting of two casks. It is the case here. Two ex-bourbon casks yielded 600 bottles of the 8 Year Old Caol…