Malts of Scotland is in high gear. This is already their 10th Caol Ila and the third this year alone (remember the wonderful 19 Year Old and the great 33 Year Old earlier this year). This one is 22 years…

Did you know that Caol Ila is the largest distillery on Islay? She has a mash tun of 13 tonnes, 8 washbacks and 6 stills (3 pairs). The bulk of production goes into Johnnie Walker, no kidding, but this…

The Italian bottler Wilson & Morgan (does not really sound Italian, now does it?) bottled this sherry finshed Bowmore in 2012. Wilson & Morgan was founded by current CEO Fabio Rossi, who followed in his…

The Bowmore Tempest Batch 1 is something of a cult whisky and hence a collectors item. By now, three new batches have been released. This 4th batch, just out, matured on first fill bourbon barrels and…

The Italian bottler Wilson & Morgan already has 9 Bunnas in portfolio. This young one from 2001 was bottled at drinking strength and got a finish is sherry wood.The nose burst with sweetness: raisins,…

Malts of Scotland has just released a whole new series of whiskies (the winter release?) with quite a few Islay malts, including this Bunna at respectable age. The hogshead yielded 220 bottles at a cask…

While the former tasted Bunna from Wilson & Morgan was a young animal, this is a 20 year old blend (do not take this the wrong way) of two casks, number 5521 and 5522. Judging from the color of the…

Typical of this Raw Cask-series by Blackadder is the cask sediment you find in each bottle. Hence the name, of course. This Bowmore from 1989 was recently launched by Robin Tucek and his team. It is very…

This Highland Park is a bottling of whisky on Spanish sherry casks and hence often considered to be the opposite of the Leif Eriksson, which matured wholly on bourbon casks. Drakkar is Nors for dragon…

The Exclusive Range from David Stirk’s Creative Whisky Company bottles relatively young, affordable, easy drinking whiskies. This one, with its 13 years, falls into that category. The nose is fresh and…