The Silveroak, a 21 Year Old Auchentoshan from 1990, is also a mix of bourbon and oloroso sherry casks, bottled at a sturdy strength of 51,5% ABV (no, it is not a cask strength, this was bottled at 51…

On the 16th of June, Auchentoshan held its Open Day, where this Valinch 2012 Festival Edition was presented. It is the successor of the acclaimed Valinch, that is considered to be the cask strength…

I will end my Toshan session with a special bottle that I was able to acquire at the whisky festival in Ghent in February 2012. This Auchentoshan is 40 years old and was distilled 5 years before I was…

Brora is the stuff of legend, certainly older Brora. This 20 Year Old was bottled by Diageo in their last, often praised and by now almost unaffordable, Rare Malts Selection in 2003.The nose is surpri…

The Brora 30 Year Old has appeared yearly since 2002, always at cask strength. The first 9 release (I already tried the 8th about a year ago) were always 30 years old, but the 10th is a 32 Year Old and…

When I hosted a tasting at a local retailer last summer, the sympathetic owner gave me a 10cl sample of this stuff: the Bora 32 Year Old. It is a very expensive, but highly coveted bottle, this 10th…

When I tried this 17 year old Bowmore for the first time, it was not in the ideal circumstances. After all, I was working in the Tunisian desert as you can see in that particular Whisky Rambling on…

David Stirk’s Creative Whisky Company comprises three ranges, including the Exclusive Casks, consisting of single malts that received an extra finish in a special cask before being bottled at cask str…

While the Belgian independent botller Asta Morris just released their newest (a 9 Year Old Glenburgie, which we tasted earlier this week), let us go back to one of the very first bottlings Bert Bruyneel…

Amazing Casks was supposed to become a special range within the Malts of Scotland franchise. Thomas Ewers and Luc Timmermans would be selecting these from time to time, but due to circumstances only one…