Between Aberlour and Elgin you can pass a beautiful distillery along the A95. Built ini 1925 by Long John Distillers, it is one of the last that was built in the twentieth century. You can hardly find…

Whiskybroker is an independent bottler specialized in bottling cask at rather pleasant prices. You can, for example, get a 17 Year Old Auchentoshan there for only 55 EUR. Just saying. Anyway, this Cra…

The Ultimate is a label from the Dutch bottler Van Wees. It is the only Linlithgow they ever bottled. I need not tell you that Linlithgow is the name used by many bottlers to indicate the closed Lowland…

Bladnoch is a distillery that has not appeared often on my blog. I have only tried three so far, including the fantastic Bladnoch 21 Year Old 1991 for The Bonding Dram, that I helped select. It is the…

The Cragganmore 12 Year Old is the entry level malt of this Speyside distillery and is also the representative of the region in Diageo's Classic Malts of Scotland series. I am trying it from a 200ml…

This bottle has become quite rare. It is a special vatting that was available only at the distillery as of 2004. Only 350 bottles were released at the almost unique (for Talisker) strength of 60% ABV.The…

Littlemill is a lost glory from the Lowlands and almost never disappoints. It is the case here as well. This is the 21 Year Old from the Age Matters series from The Whiskyman, available for around 125…

This Talisker was bottled especially for the Friends of the Classic Malts and contains a 12 Year Old (as opposed to the traditional 10 Year Old, I suppose). It is a celebration of 10 years Friends.Som…

Cragganmore was founded in 1869 in Ballindaloch. This is, of course, the heart of Speyside. The founder chose this location because of the Craggan burn that provides the water, but also the Strathspey…

Littlemill has been closed for twenty and mostly went up in flames a decade ago. But there seems to be plenty of stock as releases are quite regular. This most recent one from Malts of Scotland just hit…