The German Indie The Whisky Agency already has quite a few Bowmore on their CV. This is one of these, a 16 Year Old in the range ‘The Perfect Dram’. It was distilled in 1993 (connoisseurs say this was…

The color of this sherry matured Hakushu is really dark. Almost like coffee! The sherry butt was put to sleep in 1989 and bottled 20 years later for the 10th anniversary of Sukhinder Singh’s shop The…

Hakushu uses water from the Ojira and Jingu rivers which is considered among the purest in Japan and therefor bottled as such by Suntory (which owns Hakushu). This whisky is their 18 Year Old, with a…

Hakushu is relatively young distillery, founded in 1973. It was not bottled as single malt until 1984. This 10 Year Old is the entry level malt of this distillery, whose name means ‘white sandbank’,…

Hakushu (pronounce ‘hack-shoe’) released this Heavily Peated on the market in 2009. It serves as the Japanese answer to the popular Islay whiskies. It is very light in color and bottled at 48% ABV.The…

The Springbank I will be trying now is a single Fino Sherry Cask, bottled for the Milano whisky festival in 2009. It is a 13 Year Old, distilled in Juni 2006 and bottled in October 2009.The nose, which…

This 13 Year Old Springbank was bottled for the Belgian market, ordered by The Nectar. Only 186 bottles were released. It is a single bourbon cask, bottled at a no nonsense 56,9% ABV.The nose is pretty…

This young Springbank matured on a Madeira cask, meaning that it previously held the fortified wine of the Portugese island of the same name in the Atlantic, just off the west coast of Marocco. To be…

This is an extremely pale Springbank, which undoubtedly points towards a bourbon cask. The label simply says ‘Aged 12 years in oak casks’. Doh! It was bottled by Duncan Taylor in their NC² range, meaning…

Frank McHardy’s statement ‘We don’t do finishes, we mature’, is not entirely true, is it? This Claret Wood was matured on a refill bourbon barrel, before it got a finish (ok, a three year long finish)…