Although I have no certainty, I think this whiskey – it should not be called bourbon, because matured on a barrel that has been used before – comes from the huge Midwest Grain Products plant in Indiana…

I taste this right after the Special No 17 which also got a moscatel finish, but what I have in my glass now is much younger. After all, it matured for barely 4 years. But it's the peated version of…

Zuidam also likes to experiment with peated malt and different types of barrels. This young Millstone, aged on an oloroso sherry barrel for barely 4 years, makes my mouth water.The nose is relatively…

Patrick Zuidam has been producing whisky at the Zuidam Distillery in Baarle-Nassau since 1996. Although it wasn’t until 2007 before the first malt of this Dutch distillery appeared on the market. Under…

An Amercan single malt whiskey. Not something you come across every day. I got to know this distiller thanks to an online World Whisky Tour tasting a few months ago. A single malt from Oregon, that in…

Three Ships is a South-African whisky from the Distell group. That explains the ABV, for they bottle Deanton, Bunnahabhain and Tobermory/Ledaig also at this strength, which makes chillfiltration super…

Practice makes perfect. When I tried some of the Eddu whisky a few years back, I was not impressed. But they have improved significantly since then. Take this 2021 release of their Eddu Brocéliande for…

The Nobushi were elite warriors in feudal Japans that protected the villages and prefectures against warlords and their Samurai. In the bottle sits a blend, launched in 2017, composed of Japanse malt and…

Little Brown Dog? This is no reference to the color of this Swedish malt, but to the Swedish bottler that took on that funny name. Don’t ask me why. In December 2020 they bottled this 12 years old Mac…

Cley, the craft distillery run by Paul and Maria in Rotterdam, is slowly but surely putting together a nice range. I tried their Malt & Rye before, but today I’ll taste their single malt. It is triple…