David Stirk’s Creative Whisky Company recently restyled their Exlusive Malts range. I think the new bottles and labels look fantastic. Hopefully that can also be said of the contents. In this case, it…

Bladnoch is the kind of distillery that you do not often come accross. Certainly not an official one. A lot has to do, I think, with the fact that the distillery had been for sale for over a year. Ray…

Glen Moray can be found on the edge of Elgin and is owned by the French company La Martiniquaise since 2008. We will be trying a single cask from the stocks of David Stirk’s Creative Whisky Company. He…

I just tried a 14 Year Old Glen Moray from this independent bottler. Now let us try a 20 Year Old from 1995, just out. It is a bit darker and strangely enough has a higher ABV.The nose is wonderfully…

Let me start by saying that this bottle is utterly unfindable and that I am tasting from a miniature that has been gathering dust in my cabinet for years. It is an official Bladnoch 8 Year Old, bottled…

Craigellachie is a working horse that spits around 4 million liters of spirit out of its stills every year. Yet it is not a very well-known malt. This has everything to do with the fact that the lion’s…

GlenDronach launched a new entry level malt, having the guts to put an age statement on the label. The Hielan is 8 years old and a mix of bourbon and (in a much lesser degree) sherry casks. It costs only…

This Craigellachie is only 6 years old. It matured on a sherry butt and was bottled at cask strength by independent bottler A.D. Rattray. Just to be on the safe side, I will keep water handy. And a…

For the 2015 whisky festival in Ghent a single cask of Arran was bottled. The cask was filled on 20th September 2004 (and obviously not 2014 as mistakenly printed on the label) and bottled on 6th Nove…

No less than 68% ABV is this new make from Arran. So it is probably prudent to keep water handy. Yes, you know that I have a soft spot for new make. I have tried quite a few already (even though most are…