Isle of Jura introduced a Boutique Barrels series that consists of three single casks at cask strength with a special finish: the Bourbon JO from 1995, the Sherry JI from 1993 and this XU Heavy Peat from…

What we are about to taste now is a champion. The Black Bull 40 Year Old is a deluxe blend of different whiskies between 40 and 44 years of age. It consists of 90% malt whisky: Bunnahabhain, Glenfarclas…

The release of the so-called Smoking Buffalo, in honor of the Belgian soccer club KAA Gent affectionately known as the Buffalos, is becoming a yearly event. After the first two releases (a Bowmore and…

First Cask is the label of Whisky Import Nederland (Netherlands), that guarantees quality cask strength whiskies. This is something special, to say the least, namely a sherry matured Islay whisky of no…

Besides a hilarious television series with Rowan Atkinson, Blackadder is also the name of the independent bottler led by the eccentric Robin Tucek. With his Raw Cask releases he means to provide us with…

The London whisky shop The Whisky Exchange bottled quite a few gems. This Islay Whisky, bottled a 103° proof, is one of them. It is an Ileach matured on a bourbon hogshead. Since the PR blurb speaks of…

Cask Islay was launched on November 1st 2011 by A.D. Rattray. And while it is a blended malt (strangely enough, the label says ‘Vatting No. 1’), most of the young whisky is from one single distillery.…

McClelland is a range of whiskies marketed by Morrison Bowmore Distillers Ltd, known also for their Bowmore, Auchentoshan and Glen Garioch. They purchased T&A McClelland’s, a blender from Glasgow, in…

The Six Isles is a blended malt that should be a ‘true reflection of the Isles’. It contains 6 whiskies from Islay, Jura, Skye, Mull, Orkney and Arran. It is not that hard to identify them. Skye has only…

The Smokehead Extra Rare can be found in travel retail (although quite a few retailers carry this as well) and is bottled by MacLeod Distillers. The Islay distillery is kept secret. Some say it is Lag…