Orkney, Unnamed Orkney, Secret Orkney, all of them refer to Highland Park of course. The weirdest – in a good way – I had seen so far was High Parkland from Dramfool, with a Viking helmet on the label…

Former releases by BYOB-C (say ‘biopsy’) were all very good in my opinion. Not much later there was a series om malts under the ‘Build Your Own Bearded Commando’ label, but the acronym can also be used…

Oh, look, the boys and girls from Liquid Art have selected their next cask and this time it is one from the Highlands. And while they are not at liberty to divulge whence it came, I can tell you that the…

A Secret Grain, that’s not something you encounter often, is it? The German bottler The Whisky Agency joined forces with Animal Spirits to release this 46 years old grain that matured on a sherry butt…

The Whisky Agency bottled this Secret Speyside from 1993 (with which I have some good experience) with Heads & Tails from Canada. The sherry cask has given it a wonderful color.Soft and layered nose on…

Today we are somewhat bombarded with ‘secret’ this and ‘secret’ that, but as long as the whisky is good, we could care less. This is a Secret Sspeyside that was put to sleep in 1991 and bottled by the…

The Local Barley releases by Springbank are almost legendary. Getting hold of a bottle is nigh impossible, unless you are willing to pay four times the release price on the secondary market. Crazy, right…

This is a somewhat older release of a private cask Springbank – at cask strength, of course – with a rather special label, designed by artist Emma Dunbar. Apart from the fact that it’s a single cask that…

In 2004 a 12 years old Springbank – distilled in 1991 – was launched in a so-called Wood Expressions series. For that particular release, you’ll fork over 300 to 400 EUR today. But in 2017 Springbank…

The 12 years old Cask Strength releases from Springbank are very popular and rightfully so. They are great, each and every one of them. The first batch appeared in 2010, in 2020 the 21st batch was lau…