This is only my fourth Aultmore, but the first three were far from shabby. Maybe I should try to find some more Aultmore to try. This one was bottled by Carn Mor in their prestigious Celebration of the…

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…

Compass Box is a whisky company run by John Glaser. He is a blender and bottler, but much more than that – a whisky artist in my humble opinion. His Eleuthera appeared in 2002 and is a vatting (or ble…

Outland whisky? What is that? The label on the (beautiful) bottle proudly pronounced ‘Born in Scotland, Raised in Spain’. That needs some explaining. The whisky was composed by Richard Paterson of Whyte…

Old St Andrews is a small blending company in London that offered its whisky in a golf ball shaped bottle until recently. So it is clear who the demographic is, I suppose. But is the whisky any good,…

This whisky was popular in the 1980s due to the fact that Dennis Thatcher (hubby of Margaret) was often seen on the golf course with a miniature of it. Today, the Old St Andrews range consists of four…

I previously tried the Eleuthera (and even made a video in Paris), which is no longer in production and then became, quite litteraly, the lost blend from Compass Box. They now released this Lost Blend…

Compass Box has just released a second permanent edition of its Great King Street blends on the market, this time with a red label, named ‘Glasgow’. This blend consists for 67% of Islay malt (Laphroaig…

The last little cask miniature in my gift pack contains a 15 year old malt, but I am unable to find out which one it might be. Remember this was bottled in 1991, so it contains a malt from the 1970’s.…

The first edition of the Compass Box Juveniles (2004) was part of the Canto Cask range and was bottled at a cask strength of 53,9% exclusively for the Juveniles Wine Bar on the Rue de Richelieu in Paris…