This new (sorta) Glen Garioch 12 Year Old is bottled at a strength of 48% and has a nice full golden colour.The nose reveals a lot of malt, orchard fruit (apples and pears) and gooseberries, but als…

This vintage 1986, a respectable quarter of a century old, was scored at the Spirits in the Sky festival. It matured on American Oak, whatever that means. Bourbon, sure, but 1st fill?The nose is sweet…

This is a recent German bottling of a 20 Year Old Glen Garioch, labelled The Whiskyman’s Dram, for the company of Dominiek Bouckaert. It is very pale, due to maturation on a refill hogshead.The nose…

I tried this Fettercairn before at a tasting. It was my first encounter with this distillery, but the circumstances were not ideal (we had just tried a couple of cracker drams). So I took home a sample…

Let me try a couple of Blackadder bottlings. After all, they are all pretty good in my book, bar a few. Let me start with this undisclosed The Legendary, a 14 Year Old Speysider. It came from a sherry…

The boys of the Dutch Connection had brought an old bottle of Auchentoshan 18 Year Old to the whiskyfestival in Leuven. That was the ideal moment for me to try it, since that meant I would not have to…

In November 2012 I visited Spirits in the Sky in Leuven (Belgium), where my friend and Brand Ambassador Gordon Dundas presented this release during the Auchentoshan Masterclass. It is a grand Toshan,…

I have tasted the 21 Year Old on several occasions, including during my first visit to the distillery. While browsing my tasting notes, I was surprised to see that I had not yet written any for this…

The last Blairdfindy that I tasted, also from Blackadder, was a 40 Year Old. That was two years ago. That one was very dark, while this one is rather pale. It matured on a refill sherry butt. Blairfindy…

I have already tried quite a few Islay whiskies from Wilson & Morgan, but they also have other whiskies, such as a Glenrothes and a Linkwood, which I will try soon. This Highland Heart, from an undisc…