After the fantastic 26 Year Old, I got me a sample of a 27 Year Old from the same Rare Auld series by Duncan Taylor, also distilled in 1981 but matured for an additional year.Ha, the nose is almost…

Old Malt Cask from Douglas Laing means golden drinking strength, i.e. 50%. Rumour has it that the Laing brothers are splitting the company, but I am trying a Dallas Dhu from the good old days. It is a…

Part des Anges, of Angel’s Share, is a French bottles that favours closed distilleries for its… err… ‘Closed Distilleries’ series. This Dallas Dhu fits right in. This 1980 cask was bottled without dil…

Dun Bheagan is a label from Ian MacLeod Distillers, who also own Glengoyne and Tamdhu, but also market the following brands: Isle of Skye, Langs, Smokehead and The Six Isles. This Dallas Dhu is a single…

This Dallas Dhu, from the long gone distillery turned museum in Forres, run by Historic Scotland, was bottled by Duncan Taylor in their Rare Auld series. I believe it to be a sherry cask, unless mistaken…

The story of the ressurection of this distillery can be read in full detail in the well researched book ‘Glenglassaugh: A Distillery Reborn’ from Ian Buxton. I got it as a gift from Ronnie Routlegde from…

Etienne Bouillon recently made the news by intalling to Caperdonich stills in his Belgian Owl distillery near Grace-Hollogne. The are operational as I write this and Etienne launched a plan to sell the…

The Goldlys portfolio has expanded considerably. The latest in this series of Belgian whisky from double distillation (once in a pot still and once in a column still), matured on bourbon casks before…

In 2010, this first single cask from Goldlys, a distillate from 1989, was bottled. So it is 21 years old, which means that Goldlys was making whisky long before any of us had any inkling.The nose is very…

The Belgian Owl started production in October 2004. For the third year in a row, Etienne Bouillon is releasing a single malt at cask strength. I tried this one, from cask 4276140 filled in 200ml bottles…