I am putting two Highland Park from 1998 head-to-head. Both were bottled for the Belgian market. On the one hand there is the Smoking Buffalo 2nd Edition, on the other there is this 14 Year Old for a…

Today, I am going back into time to put two independent bottlings of Highland Park head-to-head, both from 1998. Let me start with this Smoking Buffalo 2nd Edition, in honour of AA Gent, a local football…

Here is another HP from the Creative Whisky Company, this time bottled in their Exclusive Casks range, meaning it was finished on an extraordinary cask, in this case a Pedro Ximenez sherry cask, which…

We will end our little HP line-up with an amazing cask. Well, that is what the label says. This is the second Amazing Cask from Malts of Scotland (the first one was the Bowmore 1995, remember?). This…

Have you ever heard of the Warehouse Diamonds Collection from Malts of Scotland? I have not, but can imagine it. After all, this is a 40 Year Old whisky, which you do not see very often. The oldest…

The Bladnoch Forum likes to bottle single casks. Let me put to head to head, cask 9804 and 9803. This one is 26 years old, bottled in 2010. So it is a sister cask of the previous one, that was allowed…

The Bladnoch Forum likes to bottle single casks. Let me put to head to head, cask 9804 and 9803. This one is 25 years old, bottled in 2009.The nose is much lighter than the previous one. White fruit and…

After the teens and tweens, we now get to the big boys. Gordon & Macphail bottled this Glenburgie from 1964 at the age of 46 years.Ah, now that is the better nose. Creamy and sweet on dark fruit, toasted…

I tasted my first Glenburgie, a 22 Year Old from Signatory, about a year ago. It did not rock me. But the pleasant bottling by Bert Bruyneel earlier this month took me by surprise. So, high time to try…

Octomore is known for being the most heavily peated whisky in the world. It is not a distillery (it used to be one, though), but a recipe that is distilled and bottled by Bruichladdich in long, thin…