This Vintage 1985 Limited Edition is a mix of bourbon en sherry cask, that matured for 26 long years in the famous No. 1 Vaults, the Bowmore warehouse below sea level. It comes in a nice presentation box…

Douglas Laing, well-known independent bottler, released this young Bowmore from 2000 for the famous La Maison du Whisky in Paris. Strange to bottle something so young under the Old Malt Cask label. Oh…

My good friend and Bowmore Brand Ambassador Gordon Dundas offered me a sample of Bowmore New Make, knowing that I have a soft spot for new makes. In my opinion, it offers a rare glimpse of things to come…

The Bowmore Tempest is slowly but surely becoming something of a legendary bottling, the first batch in particular. I tasted it at a whiskydinner two years ago, as well at batch 04 at a recent festival…

The Arran 14 Year Old is the successor to the 12 Year Old, which in turn followed up the 10 Year Old. That is how it goes with young distilleries. Since 2010, this is their flagship. It matured for 12…

Already quite a few casks of Arran 1996 have been released. This cask, number 1978, was filled on 11 December 1996 and bottled on 7 May 2012, especially for the Belgian market.It shows a syrupy sweet…

Arran is a young distillery, founded less than twenty years ago by Harold Currie, a former director at Chivas. Production started in 1995, Euan Mitchell is the manager. Apart from ending up in the Loc…

The Arran 12 Year Old Cask Strength saw the light of day in 2012. This first batch, no less than 12.000 bottles strong, is a marriage of first fill and second fill sherry hogsheads.After the initial…

When The Nectar, one of the leading bottlers in Belgium, celebrated their 5th birthday, they bottled a couple of malts, including this 5 Year Old Arran. It was distilled on 12 December 2005 and bottled…

The name Sleeping Warrior reffers to the shape of the highest mountain on the Isle of Arran which, when seen from a certain point of view, resembles a reclining soldier. It was released in cooperation…