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…

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…

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 Canto Casks from Compass Box form a unique series of 16 single casks that all contain the same whisky (a blend of three different malts), but were built from either American or French oak and each…

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…

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…

Glenalmond is a blended malt which means it consists only of single malts (I was told all of them from the Highlands). No grain whisky went into this. The blend is named after the river Almond, about 45…

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,…