I was fortunate to try this Private Bottling a few weeks ago in a fabulous tasting with Michiel Wigman and Jeroen Koetsier. So once it became available to the public, I hurried to secure a bottle. It’s…

Here is another one of those ‘duty paid’ samples that you can only get at the distillery itself. This time it’s a Springbank 2003 brought home in 2016. It was part of the by now infamous Christmas Tas…

My buddy Anthony brought back this gem from Springbank. A duty paid sample at 57.3% from a first fill sherry hogshead. I guess I’m in for a treat.Some weird nose on baby sick, matchsticks, pickles (!)…

While this is already batch 4 of the Kilkerran Cask Strength, it is the first I ever try. It matured on re-charred oloroso hogshead, which explains the color. And it is bottled at 57.1% ABV, they could…

I guess we know Claxton’s best for their single cask releases in those typical square ‘perfume’ bottles. But this is something special. In their so-called Exploration Series they released this young…

Campbeltown Harbour is a NAS-expression from the Glen Scotia distillery, matured on first fill bourbon casks – which explains the color. My dear friend Nadine offered me the sample.The nose is very…

I guess it was only a matter of time before a single cask for Belgium would be bottled. This former rum cask was filled with spirit on 30th July 2017 and bottled at 55% on 2nd August 2020, so just three…

For the Apex White Wine Tomer Goren, the Master Distiller at the Milk & Honey Distillery from Tel Aviv got to work with casks that previously held Israeli Chardonnay.The nose is quite different. I’m…

Apex means peak or pinnacle, with which Milk & Honey’s Master Distiller Tomer Goren wants to point out that this is up there with the best of what he has created so far. There are four expressions at…

Israel is not really top of mind when thinking about red wine. We first think of France and Italy, right? But the Israeli climate is such that they too make beautiful red wines, it seems. Barkan or…