The ‘Images’ from Malts of Scotland are casks that were ‘saved’ from the blending industry by this German bottler. They are always bottled at 53,2% ABV and the name of the distillery is never revealed…

The Parderborn boys have crossed the big pond for the first time and bottled a bourbon. Well, actually three casks at once and all three are from the Heaven Hill distillery (*). We know this American…

I have very little experience with Fettercairn. This is only my 7th so far. It is also the second by Malts of Scotland. I remember the first well – a 22 Year Old from 1990 on a bourbon cask – and found…

Hurray! Coal Ila! My favorite Islay whisky. My 58th one at that. And it is bottled by an indie with an quasi perfect reputation, so I can hardly wait to give this one a try. Let’s get to it!The nose…

Littlemill, the long gone Lowland distillery, almost never disappoints. North Sea Bottlers is a collaboration between the Belgian wine house Douchy and whisky shop Anverness and their firstborn is this…

Let’s end our Littlemill session with a nice bottle from 1975. This official Littlemill was bottled for the Italian Aldo Zini Import. The label proclaims proudly ‘100% pure Malt’, which we call single…

I have tried a couple of club bottlings from the Belgian ‘Tongerse Whiskyvrienden’, like their Caol Ila 1990, Kilchoman 2009, Laphroaig 1997 and more recently Highland Park 1994. They were gems, all of…

This week we will try a couple Littlemill from the ‘90s from last Century (with a little extra from the seventies). Let us begin with the 21 Year Old from the London bottler Berry Brothers & Rudd. It was…

Douglas Laing launched a series called Old Particular at the end of 2013. But now there is also a range of Extra Old Particular – XOP for short – in which exceptional single casks are bottled like a 30…

A call to bloggers was launched on Facebook to find people willing to try the new Littlemill 25 Year Old on 14th October. And publish their finding, of course. I answered to the call and lo and behold…