The Macphail's Collection from Gordon & Macphail is known to bottle young single malts at a very affordable price. You can actually add this 8 Year Old Highland Park to your cabinet for only 32 EUR.The…

The Warrior Series from Highland Park contains (bar a mistake on my part) six expressions: Einar, Harald, Ragnvald, Sigurd, Svein and Thorfinn. I will try the Einar, bottled at drinking strength. Einar…

A.D. Rattray often succeeds in bottling beautiful single casks. Or what to think of this one? A 22 Year Old Highland Park, distilled on 3rd December 1990 and bottled on 17th April 2013 after a long sleep…

Of this Images, exceptionally bottled at 68,3% instead of the usual 53,2%, rumour has it that this might very well be the very first release of Aisla Bay, the new Lowland distillery from William Grant…

Since Arran was only founded in 1994, this 17 Year Old must be one of the oldest Arran currently available. There are not that many independent bottlings by Arran, but it should not come as a surprise…

A few months ago I tried the completely new range of official Tullibardine, but age-wise they do not even come close to this new Malts of Scotland release. This one matured for 34 years on a sherry cask…

For my twentieth Tomatin, I have a sample of the new Malts of Scotland release. Judging by the color, this was a refill sherry cask.Wow! Great nose! Stewed fruit in all its facets. A veritable fruit bomb…

Glenrothes can be found in Rothes, close to Aberlour, in the heart of Speyside. They distilled for the first time on 28 December 1879, the day on which the Tay Bridge collapsed. I’m just saying… This…

Now that the storm about the new Ardbeg had died down a bit, I feel comfortable enough to share my tasting notes with you. Auriverdes can be explained as Auri (gold) and Verdes (green), referring to the…

Ardbeg on sherry cask? You do not see that often. This bottling was first presented at the Festival for Independent Bottlers in Belgium last May and was bottled exclusively for the organizer Jurgen’s…