This very young Glenrothes was bottled by Dràm Mòr, the relatively young company of the cheerful Kenny MacDonald and his better half Viktorija. Kenny, by the way, got the love for whisky from his chil…

Drinks Shop Bams in the heart of Maastricht, Holland, is led by the ever sympathetic Martijn Bams, now the third generation. He selected this single cask and had it bottled at cask strength, especially…

I had tasted this before, during the online version of Spirits in the Sky in November 2020. It was a happy reunion, trust me.Delicious creamy and fruity nose on apricots, sweet apples, almond shavings…

A few months ago I made an appointment with my American friends John and Mary-Angela. After all, they came to Belgium and that was the perfect opportunity for them to bring some bottles, such as the…

I've already been lucky enough to taste quite a few Distillers Edition from Oban. Eight to be precise, but this release from 2018, a distillate from 2004, had escaped my lips until now. Recently I org…

Manny came to visit not so long ago and brought me a bottle of this Supersonic 'Mach 2'. Well, he shouldn't have done that, but I'm pretty glad he did. I had tasted the Supersonic 'Mach 4' a few months…

Supersonic? Mach 4? Could Iain be a fan of Top Gun? Anyway, this is a blended malt from 2013 that after just over 7 years of maturation on a sherry butt was bottled at 60% (OMG). The butt yielded no…

North Star Spirit won the title 'Independent Bottler of the Year' in both 2020 and 2021. That's pretty clever. I can only imagine that this Spica 40 Year Old 1980 contributed to that. All components in…

I tasted the 20-year-old version of the Spica from North Star Spirits, a very nice and tasteful blend of this bottler that won prizes again in 2021. But today we go a step further and taste a 29-year…

My whisky buddy Manny brought a bottle with him on his last visit. It involved a very young Ben Nevis that spent barely 6 years on a very active 1st fill oloroso sherry butt. The cask still yielded 588…