Peter Affenzeller is an Austrian dat recently started distilling whisky. He was born in 1986 but has quite some products to show already. Besides the White, which is basically his new make, he also…

What a weird bottle indeed. Niek and Ilse brought it with them from one of their many travels and allowed me a sample. According to the marketing blurb of the company, this would be a blend consisting…

Nice name, no? Kadhambam! Sounds a bit like an onomatopoeia, but in fact is a word in Tamil, a south Indian language, meaning mixture or combination. According to the backlabel, you will get a combina…

I have to admit that I am not very fond of whisky’s with a name that cannot be pronounced properly without looking like a complete idiot. It makes for difficult conversation. This Breton whisky matured…

Next to the 225 there is now also the 228 from Tullibardine. It is their Sovereign, the bourbon matured entry level malt, but finished on Burgundy red wine casks. It was a cask of 228 litres, from which…

Let’s finish our line-up of non-Scotch whisky with one from the homefront, bottled at 46% (there is also a version at 76,1%). It is five years old and named officially ’60 months’. Whatever. Let’s taste…

The Brilliance from Paul John was created using unpeated malt and maturation in bourbon barrels. It was bottled at a drinking strength without chill filtration.The nose is very grainy. Think cornflakes…

Alongside the bourbon matured Sunray, Diageo also launched this Tailfire. The difference is not in price, nor ABV. Those are the same for both bottlings. As is the color, but that has more to do with…

The Ileach simply means ‘him from Islay’. It is a single malt from this Mekka of the peated whisky and through the grapevine I heard it whispered that this might in fact be a young Lagavulin. I am not…

In the nineties of last century, Auchentoshan bottled quite a few single casks from 1965 and 1966. One of those is this bourbon hogshead with number 1005, filled at 46,1% after 31 long years of matura…