I first got introduced to the malts from the Carn Mor Strictly Limited range during a wonderful Whisky & Chocolate tasting in April. This one did not appear in that line up. It is a vatting of 2 hogsh…

A Tomatin from my year of birth? Well, I must try this, surly. It came from a single cask, number 12267, bottled at cask strength with a nice dark colour. It was bottled in August 2007.Lift off! A fruit…

The Eifelboys shared this cask with Vinotek Massen from Luxemburg. Luxemburg got 60 bottles, the Eifelboys kept 70. With good reason.The nose is fruity, but with a twist. Stewed fruits to be precise, but…

The Antiquary 12 Year Old is bottled in a rather odd and old looking bottle, but that is hardly relevant. It is produced by Tomatin and thus contains this single malt as signature. But also other High…

Allow me to finish up my line-up of Americans with a single barrel from Jack Daniel’s. This barrel was bottled on 9th July 2012 at 45% ABV (or 90 proof). It sticks to the glass.The honeysweet nose shows…

I first encountered this bourbon at an American whisky tasting in my neck of the woods with James Cowan. The year 1792 refers to the fact that Kentucky became the 15th State of the USA that year. That…

Thomas H Handy is another one of these powerful Americans that are part of the Antique Collection. This bottling from 2011 was chosen by Jim Murray as whiskey of the year in his 2012 spiritual scripture…

Parker Beam is a legend in the whiskey industry. He selected a couple of great casks from his 49 warehouses at Heaven Hill and bottles these in a series called Parker’s Heritage Collection. In an inte…

Jim Beam Devil’s Cut is of course a tongue-in-cheek reference to the Angel’s Share, the part that evaporates during maturation. Hence what is left in the cask, according to Beam’s marketing departement…

Distilled in the winter of 1993 and bottled in 2011, this Stagg is 18 years old. It has, just like his siblings, a very dark color and is almost syrupy in the glass. The nose is very sweet and aromatic…