This has been showing off in my closet for a few years and was a birthday gift from my Dutch buddy Stjepko. Yes, strange name. But his roots are in the Balkans. Doesn't matter; it is a top bloke and I…

That decanter of Signatory's Cask Strength Collection... I'm going to say it again: wonderful to see, terrible to pour from. Fortunately, it's all about the content and that in this case is my favorite…

This bottling dates back to the time when David Stirk was the owner of the Creative Whisky Company. An Auchentoshan in the Exclusive Malts series? Well, of course. The cask yielded 228 cask strength…

It has become a tradition that I organize a so-called Toshan Man Birthday Tasting for my birthday. Due to corona, this is unfortunately online for the second year in a row. Hopefully live again next year…

Well, well, well... brand new Independent Bottler of the Year North Star Spirits (yes, for the second year in a row, congratulations, Iain!) bottled an Auchentoshan for the first time last summer. How…

For the 15th anniversary of Belgian importer The Nectar, a lot of whisky (and other spirits) was bottled and I'm lucky: there is another Auchentoshan! This was bottled by Blackadder and it’s a belter.…

I have quite a few single casks from Auchentoshan in my collection, that speaks for itself. But I don't have that many vintage 2000. This was bottled by Signatory in their so-called Cask Strength Coll…

At the whisky festival in Ghent, my good friend Chris Lauriers stood behind the table of the Scotch Malt Whisky Society. He beckoned me closer and said, ‘I have something for you’. I saw the number 5.78…

We will stay with The Ultimate for a while, because through my buddy Marcel from the Netherlands I was able to get a sample of a sister cask, namely bourbon barrel #800257 that was put to sleep in 1999…

The Ultimate barely needs introduction, I think. The Dutch independent bottler van Wees releases single casks under this banner, often at cask strength. Meanwhile, there are more than 1000 and in the run…