A few weeks ago I tried my first dram from this young Belgian distillery I Bruges: a one year old spirit named Rogia, finished on an ice wine cask and bottled at 59.2%. This one ups the ante, being a 2…

For our third release in the Canvas Series, with again a beautiful artwork by Monique Tromp on the label, we selected a lesser known malt. This Fettercairn was put to sleep in 2008 in a bourbon hogshead…

For their 10th anniversary the German bottler Liquid Treasures released this 10 years old Fettercain. Love the label! The malt matured on a rum cask by the way.The rum dominates the nose of this malt…

A 28 years old Fettercairn! This was distilled in the year yours truly became of age. I had actually tried this before in the 2018 edition of the Proefolympics (Dutch tasting competition), thinking it…

Druma Mor is a Belgian bottler. Last year they released this 11 year old Fettercairn. It’s a distillery that doesn’t appear on my scope often, to be honest. However, I was quite impressed with this malt…

Foamy, my good friend Bart A, recently put this sample in my hands. It’s an Ardmore that was bottled some 5 years ago on Hunter Laing’s Old Malt Cask series.Oh, what a delicious, bright and fruity nose…

Druma Mor is a Belgian bottler with Geert de Bolle at the helm. He selected this Ardmore that matured on a former Laphroaig cask. Exciting, no?The nose starts rather closed, so give it five minutes. Then…

When I published my tasting notes of yet another batch of this Aberlour a’bunadh a few months ago, my friend Benny told me he had an open bottle of Batch #26 and asked me if I was interested in tasting…

This is the 20th release from Infrequent Flyers, the company run by Alistair Walker (son of legend Billy). I have to confess that I have very little experience with Allt-a-Bhainne, the distillery that…

A few years ago Douglas Laing bottled this Arran single malt in their famous Old Particular series. At cask strength, this time, i.e. 52%. My brother in drams Manny from Holland sent me the sample.…