This Old Perth is a blended malt, so no grain whisky came near this one. It is commercialized by Carn Mor, famous for its single cask bottlings. The company was named Scottish Liqueur Centre until very…

This Famous Grouse was married – hence the name – in so-called marrying tuns. It contains 70% grain whisky, from four grain distilleries, upholstered with Macallan, Highland Mark, Glenrothes, Tamdhu,…

Passport Scotch is a classic blend in the portfolio of Pernod-Ricard. It was developed in the 1960s by Master Distiller Jimmy Lang and contains Highalnd, Lowland and Speyside whiskies. According to…

To be honest, I do not have that much experience with Strathmill. This is only my 9th. Mackillop’s Choice is a series by Angus Dundie, a blender from London that also owns the Tomintoul and Glencadam…

Strathmill from the 1970s can be quite good. I was able to ascertain that with the Strathmill 1974 from Archives and the Strathmill 1975 from Malts of Scotland. Now let me try a Strathmill 1976, released…

Strathmill can be found in Keith, close to better known distilleries Keith and Strathisla. It was built in 1891 and originally named Glenisla-Glenlivet. Since 1975, the distillery is run by Justerine &…

Old Ballantruan is the peaty version of Tomintoul, made with peated barley and matured on sherry casks. It is bottled at a nice 50% ABV. There is also a 10 Year Old, but I will try the NAS version. Malty…

This is an old bottling by Signatory of a lesser known Speysider. A Tomintoul 1966 on sherry cask (which is no surprise, Tomintoul is known to use mostly if not exclusively sherry casks). Only 128 bot…

Knowing that Tomintoul market sits peated whisky under the Old Ballantruan label, this raised my eyebrows a little. Maybe not as peaty as the Old Ballantruan? Who know? Anyway, it is an entry level malt…

Loki was the second release in the Valhalla Collection from Highland Park (Thor and Freya being the others). With a price tag of around 200 EUR (by now, at least), it is quite expensive, but the afici…