The Isle of Jura 1976 was very much to my liking, so the expectations for this 1977 are pretty high. In this case it is a mix of bourbon barrels and a port cask. So it must be sweeter, I think.Walnuts…

A few weeks ago I received a box with some Bowmore chocolates, which included a miniature of the Bowmore Small Batch. I had tried it before at a whisky festival and again when trying the chocolate, but…

I have to admit that I hardly found any information about this bottling. All I know is that it was bottled exclusively for the Belgian retailer Tasttoe. It came under the Octave label, marketed by Duncan…

I have absolutely no idea what Feith A' Chaorainn means, but according to Google it stands for 'the land around the rowan'. That does not help me much. So let me simply get started on this Isle of Jura…

The Bowmore 100 Degrees was launched for the duty free range, bottled at 57,1% ABV. The strength would have to do with the testing of the alcohol percentage by sailors with gunpowder, back in the old…

This year, on 28 and 29 May, Jura Tastival 2014 will take place. In their own words, this is a 'whisky tasting revolution'. Especially for the festival a whisky was bottled under the name Tastival. Along…

The Isle of Jura Origin is the reincarnation of their standard 10 Year Old. But you know as well as I that batches can vary significantly and the last time I tried this one was in 2010. Seeing that I…

Eilan Gillan is a French bottler with only a few releases to its name, including an Arran, two Bowmore, a Caol Ila, two Macallan, but also four Clynelish. This is one of them, a single cask that was…

Let me end this flight of Jura with a bottling from Signatory’s Cask Strength Collection. This one was bottled by The Nectar from Belgium. It was distilled on 17 December 1989 and bottled on 26 September…

Machir Bay is all but three years old. It is a mix of bourbon and oloroso sherry casks (about 30%). The first time I tried this was at a Kilchoman tasting in Ghent. I recently received a sample from my…