This is (bar the Carn Mor Vintage Collection release) the youngest Longmorn I’ve tried so far. It matured for 14 years on a bourbon cask that yielded 304 bottles. It is very pale, which makes me wonder…

Let’s stay on Islay for a while and try three Caol Ila head-to-head. We’ll start with a young one: a 10 Year Old, bourbon barrel #309889, from the Austrian independent bottler Single Cask Collection…

The last Caol Ila this week is the oldest: 27 years. It was distilled in 1983 and bottled by QV.ID, a Belgian retailer, in 2010. It matured on a refill sherry cask. The color and viscosity are enticing…

This Caol Ila was distilled on 9th February 1982 (damn, I was a 12 year old school kid at the time!) and slept for 25 years on bourbon hogshead #741, to be bottled on 17th April 2007. Only 220 bottles…

The Whisky Agency, a bottler from Limburg (Germany), where the famous Whisky Fair takes place every year (which I really need to go and visit sooner rather than later), has several series on the market…

QV.ID, a Belgian retailer, already worked it’s way into the spotlight with prior bottlings under their own label. The first was a 27 Year Old Caol Ila (I’ll be tasting that one very soon), the second a…

This is the 20th Bowmore already (thus being inadvertently the third most sipped whisky with BenRiach in close third place and – of course – Auchentoshan in the lead). Anyway, I’m pouring myself a sample…

This Auchentoshan, that was finished on a Mourvèdre wine cask after its regular maturation of 8 years on a bourbon cask, and bottled by Murray McDavid at the Bruichladdich Distillery’s bottling plant.…

I was able, thanks to a good friend, to obtain samples of several official releases of Glen Ord : the 25 Year Old, 28 Year Old and 30 Year Old. Let’s try those head-to-head, shall we? Let’s start out…

It has been a while since I tasted some Glen Ord, so this week, I’ll be trying a few. I’m starting off with a 15 Year Old from Malts of Scotland. This is a very pale Glen Ord from a bourbon hogshead that…