For the longest time Highland Park did not have a 10 Year Old, apart from a special release for Whisky Live London some five years ago. But since 2013 there is a 10 Year Old in half bottles. It was meant…

This Dark Origins from Highland Park is a NAS-release that saw the light of day last year. According to official sources it contains twice as many sherry casks in the mix (next to bourbon) than are used…

The Warrior Series from Highland Park consists of (bar mistake on my part) six expressions: Einar, Harald, Ragnvald, Sigurd, Svein and Thorfinn. I tried the Einar last summer, but was quite underwhelmed…

This new Ledaig (the peaty whisky from Tobermory on the island Mull), released in 2015, is a limited edition and fully matured on sherry casks. I discovered it at the whisky festival in Ghent. By the way…

Ledaig is my favorite peaty whisky from Mull (okay, Mark, that was kinda silly). The Bonding Dram, a Belgian webshop (in collaboration with Dim’s Dram and Comptoir Des Vins) selected this first fill…

Dailuaine is one of those whiskies that you do not come accross every day. Only 2% is bottled as single malt, while the rest disappears in the blends from Diago, who owns the distillery. The online shop…

This is not Asta Morris’ first Glenburgie. Previously he had a much younger version (9 years old), but this is one from 1995, almost 20 years old, from the Signatory stables in Pitlochry.The nose is…

The stream of independent bottlings of Irish single malt seems to be endless. Last year Jurgen’s Whiskyhuis released this 13 Year Old Irish malt in the ‘Uisge Beatha Taigh’ series (after a grand Ardbeg…

Glenallachie is another one of those unknown distilleries in whiskyland, for the simple reason that there are hardly any official bottlings. This Speysider, founded only in 1967, produces quasi exclus…

Jurgen Vromans - aka The Whisky Mercenary – was able to get hold of a cask of peated Irish whiskey and bottled it for a Flemish and Dutch whisky shop. They each got their own label. I was told that the…