Glen Elgin’s Speyside distillery had quite a difficult start, with problems from the very start. It was the last distillery to be built in Speyside before the infamous Pattison Crash. After that episode…

I tried the official St Magdalene 1994 release from Diageo’s Rare Malts series. This 23 year old expression has become very scarce and as such, very expensive as well (about 350 EUR). The 19 year old…

The St Magdalene distillery from the Lowlands was closed in 1983. This is a 23 year old expression, distilled in 1982 and bottled in 2006 in the so-called Old Malt Cask series by the Glasgow based ind…

Blackadder is an independent bottler with Swedish roots. The Raw Cask Series are bottlings at cask strength and non chill-filtered. Typical is also the fact that part of the sediment from the casks are…

The peated spirit was put to sleep for more than thirty years on American oak (ex-bourbon) and then transferred to a Tawny Port Pipe for a finish of 12 monhs.It’s the porto that makes the nose burst with…

This is one of those combinations: peated BenRiach with a wood finish – in this case Oloroso sherry. It was put to sleep in 1984 and awakened in a bottle in June 2006 at the age of 21. The difference…

Bladnoch is the most southern distillery in Scotland, thus in the Lowlands. Together with Rosebank, Pittyviach and Balmenach, it was closed in 1993. However, a year later it was purchased by the Irish…

BenRiach has classic Speyside style and Wood Finished whiskies, but the latter also come in peated versions. There is the Heredotus Fumosus (Sherry finish), the Importanticus Fumosus (Tawny Port finish…

Our very own Belgian Malt Maniac Bert Bruyneel selected this cask (bourbon hogshead 4019, bottled in 2008 by Premium Spirits, Belgium, 290 bts).The nose keeps you waiting, but after a bit of patience…

BenRiach has three wine finished (and several other, like port and rum finished) expressions in their ‘Wood Finishes’ range. Apart from the Moscatel (which I like) and the Sauterness (which I have not…