Highland Park released this bottle to celebrate the 10th Anniversary of the London festival WhiskyLive (which took place in February 2010). I was lucky enough to have a member of this community (thanks…

This Bushmills can only be obtained in the duty free shops and hence is a 1 litre bottle. It's a marriage of the classic Bushmills single malt and Bushmills that has matured in Caribbean Rum casks. It…

This whiskey was originally produced at John Locke’s & Sons distillery near Kilbeggan, but is currently put on the market by Cooley’s. This single malt is a pure pot still, a procedure unique to Ireland…

I purchased this bottle during a dinner at my local whisky restaurant. I love Irish dram!The nose is a true fruit basket: a mixture of pear, banana and apricots, suffused with honey and an overdose of…

Ardbeg hardly needs any kind of intro, but just for completeness’ sake, I’ll just say this. Ardbeg is famous for it’s very peated malts and hails from Islay. They are considered by many whisky aficion…

I had the regular Old No 7 from Jack Daniel’s before and now tried the big brother, the Single Barrel Silver Select.He has a lot in common with the Old No 7 (sweet corn, vanilla, coconut and oranges with…

Amrut Single Malt Whisky is created from Indian malted barley that is grown in Punjab and Rajasthan at the Northwestern border of India. Tasting this blind, you might easily take this for a good 10 Year…

Today, I tried the Chivas Regal 12 Year Old (which contains quite a bit of Strathisla, the most pittoresque distillery in Keith - Speyside).The nose is very soft with citrus and apples, but also mild…

This is a so-called 'Blended & Vatted whisky’. It got a ‘double marriage’. First the different malt whiskies were vatted, while the 14 grainwhiskies got vatted seperately. They were then married together…

The Rollercoaster is probably the most hyped whisky of the last few months. Long in advance the marketeers at Ardbeg had announced this Committee Release, that would be launched on Feb 15th. It’s release…