Ardmore was once a distillery on Islay, that merged with Lagavulin in 1835. But today’s Ardmore has nothing to do with the old one and can be found near Huntly in the Highlands, on the border with Spe…

Whisky Troef is a Belgian malt whisky club. For their most recent club bottling they asked Jürgen Vromans – aka The Whisky Mercenary – to select a cask. He offered them a lesser known malt: Ben Nevis.…

So far, every release of Tempest was good (ok, I have not tasted all of them). The first release has even become something of a collector’s item (yep, I have it in my collection too). Batch 6 will be…

Now that the sun sets a bit earlier and the temperatures start to drop, I felt the time right to taste some peated whisky. Let me open the debates with this Bowmore from Wemyss, nicknamed Peat Smoked…

I found this young Bowmore at the Spirits in the Sky festival in Brussel early November. It is bottled by Andrew Symington in the Un-Chillfiltered Collection from Signatory and is just a month shy of…

Children of the Damned is a horror movie from 1964, but also a hard rock song by Iron Maiden. Since I know that The Whiskyman has a soft spot for music, we will presume his bottle is a reference to Iron…

The series of Smoking Buffalo is always a peaty whisky in honor of KAA Gent, a Belgian football club that celebrates its 150th birthday this year. To celebrate, Belgian bottlers The Bonding Dram and…

At the festival of Independent Bottlers I took to A.D. Rattray samples, both single cask bottlings of Caperdonich. Sister casks, both put to sleep in 1992, both bottled in 2014 at cask strength. I will…

Caperdonich is no more. The distillery closed in 2002 and was demolished in 2010. She started life as Glen Grant No 2 and initially produced solely for the blenders. Chivas Regal, 100 Pipers and Passport…

Aultmore is one of those noble unknows Scotches, hardly available as a single malt. The distillery lies just north of Keith and is the fingerprint malt for Dewar’s whisky, a popular blend. I do not have…