Coincidentally, the last I tasted from Belgian bottler Double-V was also a BenRiach, one that was matured in a barrel from the craft distillery Koval in Chicago. This new release spent his life on a port…

For the 15th anniversary of Belgian importer The Nectar, a lot of new bottlings were presented at their top festival Spirits in the Sky. This is one of them, from a closed distillery to boot. This…

In March 2019 I tasted private cask #141 that was bottled by the guys from BYOB-C and today I get my hands on a sample of cask #140 that was bottled for the collective CasQueteers. Small world, right?…

Whisky Warehouse is the Belgian importer and representative of Gordon & Macphail and regularly a bottling is launched especially for them. This is one of those: a Blair Athol in the Connoisseurs Choice…

Cask 88 is a Scottish company mainly engaged in trading barrels, designing bottles and bottling for companies, particularly in the Far East. But in 2016 they bottled a whisky under their own label for…

Not so long ago I was asked to host an online tasting for the Malt Society of Arabia! Admit it, that's special. This club, MSA for short, has been around for more than 11 years. They are all expats who…

Coastal Boy? Never heard of it. And yet this German independent bottler – Mario Walter – has been active for a while. Most of his 'Eigenabfüllungen' are bottles of 350ml or 500ml, including this special…

The Meadowside Blending Company bottles both single malt and single grain. The former under the label The Maltman and the latter under – you guessed it – the label The Grainman. This Maltman bottling was…

Elixir Distillers is the name of the company under which Sukhinder Singh of The Whisky Exchange itself bottles malts. Last year this 'A Speyside Distillery' appeared on the market, in which the origin…

A blend of one of Scotland's oldest bottlers: Cadenhead. All components of this blend are a) Scottish and b) at least 20 years old and c) sherry matured. The nose is difficult, which means that I am not…