Mitchell & Sons is a wine merchant that has been active since 1805 and in the Roaring Twenties that sold about 100 sherry casks of pot still whiskey per year. The blend was originally named Pat Whiskey…

Besides the classic Green Spot Irish pot still whiskey, that is marketed as a no age statement, Mitchell & Sons launched the Yellow Spot a few years ago. It is bottled at 12 years of age. It is special…

I was recently visited by James, an American military man stationed in Germany with the US Air Force. He wanted to offer me two bottles of Auchentoshan in trade for two of my older Bushmills. He collects…

Glen Ord was founded in 1838 and built on a site that previously held a beer house and mill (since 1549). Only in 1966 extra stills were installed, totaling six, and warmed by steam. Since 1985 the…

Teeling is not only a bottler, but will soon start distilling again as well. They just bought the Dundalk Brewery for that purpose. But it will take years before they can release their own whisky. Until…

This single cask of GlenDronach was bottled especially for La Maison du Whisky in France and The Nectar in my neck of the Belgian woods. It was distilled on the 5th of May 1995 and bottled in the summer…

Crested Ten has been around since 1963 and was the first Jameson to be bottled at the distillery when back when. It is a mix of 60% pot still whiskey and 40% grain whiskey. It is older than 10 years (a…

It is always exciting, even after all these years, to still come accross a whisky that I have not tried before. Glenlochy, near the legendary Fort William and at the foot of the Ben Nevis, was founded…

I got this sample from Eric Vermeire, who promotes Gordon & Macphail in Belgium. He gave it to me at the festival for independent bottlers at a time that the bottle had just hit the shelves. Beautifully…

This is truly a golden oldie: a Glenlochy (closed since 1983) from Signatory Vintage, bottled in the typical dumpy from two decades ago. The distillate dates back to 1963, the year in which Copenhagen’s…