This Ardbeg was distilled in March 1991 and botttled by Douglas Laing at the ‘ideal drinking strength’ in October 2004. Hence is is 13 years old. It is as pale as straw.Everything about this nose is soft…

This Ardbeg 1991, from the Spirit of Scotland range by Gordon & Macphail, is 11 years old and bottled at an ABV of 55,8% on 12 November 2002. So it has spent almost as long in the bottled than it has…

Spirit of Scotland is also a label used by Gorden & Macphail, the famous bottler from Elgin (and owners of the beautiful whisky shop in that town). In this case, it is a single cask at cask strength,…

William Cadenhead, probably Scotland’s oldest independent bottler, released this Ardbeg 1993 in 2008, in their Original Collection, after a maturation of 14 years on a bourbon cask. Judging by the color…

It took some doing to get a sample of the Auchentoshan 1957 (according to my ‘supplier’ it had the hallmarks of a ‘military operation’), but here it is in front of me at last. It is the 50 Year Old from…

In April 2011 I already enjoyed a 31 Year Old Auchentoshan from the Distillery Archive. It was bourbon hogshead 803. Thanks to a collector in Germany, I was able to get my hands on a sample from a sister…

Malts of Scotland recently opened a visitor center in Paderborn (Germany), where you will also find the warehouses in which several of Thomas Ewers’ casks are maturing. Some of these were bottled in a…

Gordon & Macphail releases whiskies under their Secret Stills label, of which the distilleries are… err… secret. But this Lowland is clearly Auchentoshan, for the back label reveals that it is a triple…

This Auchentoshan was bottled by Indie James MacArthur, without chill filtration or coloring. It is a single cask (number 113) at cask strength.While Auchentoshan is instantly recognizable on the nose…

Nikka picked up quite some important prizes at several competition in the last decennium. The 10 Year Old was named ‘Best of the Best’ in 2001 and the 15 Year Old got a gold medal at the 2010 Internat…