The Girvan Distillery can be found in the Lowlands and is owned by William Grants & Sons, better known as the company behind Glenfiddich. The production is destined for the blends of the company, but…

Invergordon is a fairly young distillery, founded in 1959, a proverbial stone’s throw away from Glenmorangie and Dalmore. We are trying a 25 Year Old single cask of the grain whisky, distilled in 1988…

Cameronbrigde was one of Scotland’s first distilleries to produce grain whisky. It was founded in 1824. Jim McEwan, of Bruichladdich fame, was asked to select casks for the Celtic Heartlands series. It…

The Whisky Mercenary - aka Jürgen Vromans – just launched its first peated non-Islay whisky. It is a Ledaig from 2005. I quite like Ledaig 2005. Remember the bottlings for Anverness, Smoking Buffalo and…

I have told the story of VAT69 before, when I wrote my tasting notes for this blend, bottled in 1975. This bottling is a littles less old, from 1983. Around 35% of the contents is said to be malt whisky…

Bailie Nicol Jarvie is ‘constructed’ by the people at Glenmorangie. I suppose quite a bit of that malt went into the mix as a result, but it also contains sweet Speyside and some Islay. The blend is…

This Blairmhor is a blend of no less than 20 single malts, with the emphasis on Speyside. So no grain whisky was used in this bottled, hence it is called a Blended Malt.The nose is rather silent. Some…

Okay, let me start by saying that this is quite old stuff. It was bottled in 1972 and is minimum 17 years old, so this golden auldie contains whisky distilled in the Fifties of last century. Liquid…

Black & Whyte was launched by James Buchanan in the late 19th Century. It was introduced in the English House of Commons in a black bottle with a white lable. Hence the name. The famous dogs, Bobby and…

Teacher's Highland Cream is considered to be a rather common blend – it is pretty cheap – but so far I had only tried the 1988 version. Time to try a modern version as well, a bottling from 2014. If I…