Let us return to the Buffalo Trace Distillery for this W.L. Weller. It is special because, next to the obligatory 51% corn, the small grains are not rye, but wheat and it also matured for 12 years, which…

Old Fitzgerald as originally, since 1870, produced for private clubs in the south, run by John E. Fitzgerald, a ship and steel magnate from Frankfort, Kentucky. But it was already available in Europe by…

Basil Hayden’s was named after Basil Hayden Sr, a catholic from Maryland to lead his flock to Nelson County, Kentucky, near Bardstown, in 1785. He was, as many men of the frock were, a distiller as well…

On the 1st of July, it is Canada Day. Enough reason to try a Canadian whisky. Let me start with the most famous, the Canadian Club, locally also known as CC or simply Club. It has been on the market…

This whisky has rye as its main ingredient and matured for 10 years in charred cask, before being cut to a drinking strength using ice water from Mount Hood, the highest mountain in Oregon. Hang on.…

Early 2012 I told you about Whiskyblender.com (http://www.connosr.com/reviews/whiskyblender/mark-dermuls-1st-xperiment/innovative/), the website that allows you to create your very own blend from casks…

On Whiskyblender.com, one can compose his/her own blend from several casks that are discribed as Burnt Puddin’, Soft & Fruity, Touch of Spice and the likes. And while my first blend, aptly named 1st…

Macduff is one of the few whisky distilleries that does not release whisky under their own name. They do market a rather mediocre Glen Deveron. If you want to taste great Macduff, you will need to focus…

This is the oldest Benromach I have tried to date and of course from an era that the distillery was not yet in the hands of Gordon & Macphail (because they only took ownership in 1993). It has a wonde…

I visited Benromach in the summer of 2010, but since it was a Sunday and the distillery was closed, I did not get to see all that much. The day before we had visited the Gordon & Macphail shop in Elgin…