After the classic labels and the guitar labels, The Whiskyman now released a new series named Age Matters. You will have to look for the name of the distillery on the label, for the emphasis is clearly…

Under impulse of Mark Watt, Cadenhead launched the so-called Small Batch series in 2013. A few classics have already been released: Banff 1978, Caol Ila 1984, Fettercairn 1993, Glenlivet 1970, Glenrothes…

You can find the Convalmore Distillery (closed since 1985) on the outskirts of Dufftown. The warehouses are currently being used by Williams Grants & Sons for maturing Glenfiddich and Balvenie whisky.…

I have tried four Ledaig 2005 so far, with mixed results. The best by far was the Smoking Buffalo 4 that was released early last year in Belgium. This new one has only just hit the market, bottled by…

When 500 bottles of the Auchentoshan 1975 appeared on the market two years ago, I even flew out to Glasgow to pick up my bottle at the distillery. The distillate from 7 May 1975 was simply marvelous…

The Bottle Your Own programme from Auchentoshan currently boasts not one, but two casks. Yoav Gelbfish from Israel visited the distillery, bottled from bourbon cask 11030 and graciously offered to send…

Through Whiskybase I was contacted by The-Man-best-Friend, a German whisky lover. He had noticed that I had not yet tried this 11 Year Old Auchentoshan from Hart Brothers and sent me a generous sample…

Hepburn’s Choice is a new star on the firmament of independent bottlers. Let me give it a go with a malt that I am quite familiar with.The nose is immediately extremely sweet, but a lot more mature than…

The American Oak is the successor of the Classic, which is the entry level malt that even I am not very fond of. The big difference with the Classic is not so much the age (for there is no age statement…

The latest Provenance-bottling, from McGibbon’s, which is actually part of Douglas Laing, was a gift from my friend Chris Leggat, former Auchentoshan ambassador and since a few weeks the son-in-law of…