The Whiskyman – aka our friend Dominiek Bouckaert – launched his Isle of Jura 1988 exclusively for the Viking Lines, the Scandinavian ferry service. Hence it is hard to come by in Belgium. Unless you…

The German bottler The Whisky Agency released this 24 Year Old Jura in collaboration with Bresser & Timmer from Holland. How they divided the cask is irrelevant, let us focus on the contents which is…

When the label on a bottle boldly states The Perfect Dram it has quite an expectation to fulfil, no? This 23 Year Old Clynelish was bottled by the German company The Whisky Agency. Buckle up!Loads of oak…

The last dram in my little Clynelish & Brora line-up is this 7th release from 2008. It contains a 25 Year Old Brora, a bottle that nowadays will set you back around 400 EUR. Ouch! It is a mix of both…

You are probably familiar with the Six Isles, a vatted (excuse me, blended) malt from 6 islands (Jura, Orkney, Mull, Skye, Arran and Islay – hence the name). But since early 2013 there is also this Six…

Douglas Laing introduced the Double Barrel series a few years ago. It is a special vatting of two single malts. The combinations, at first glance, seem a bit odd and farfetched and make me wonder if they…

Cutty Sark is name of the British clipper, as it has been depicted on the label since 1955. The blend was designed originally by Berry Brothers & Rudd on the 20th of March 1923. We are trying the 12 Year…

DYC was founded in 1959 and has a huge factory in Segovia, near Madrid. Johnnie Walker, eat your heart out! They own 50% of the market in Spain. Their standard blend is this DYC. I tried it at a tasting…

Another Cutty Sark, but this time the 25 Year Old, which contains 95% Speyside malt whisky and only 5% (doh!) grain. Judging by the colour, some sherry casks were used. That is immediately confirmed on…

Flaming Heart is a blended malt, put together from whiskies that matured on refill bourbon casks, heavily charred French oak and a couple of sherry casks. The precise malts used is a well kept secret,…