Until recently I had never even heard of Chinquapin, but turns out to be a type of white oak from North-America, related to the chestnut tree. Drinks Shop Bos from Belgium bottled this single cask – sold…

Whisky Import Nederland – WIN for short – was able to secure a sherry butt that was filled with the GlenAllachie spirit in 2018 and bottled at cask strength in 2020 in their First Cask series. What a…

Not so long ago Glenallachie – sorry, GlenAllachie – was taken over by Billy Walker, but this is a distillate from before his reign. Distilled in 2008 and bottled at cask strength for the Belgian impo…

I previously tasted two single casks under the name ‘Just Hatched’ from this New Zealand distillery. They were both oloroso single casks. Today I’ll try the new ‘Growing Wings’, which matured just a tad…

My very first Smögen! This Swedish distillery, founded in 2009, it was built in a farmstead near Hunnebostrand a little to the north of Göteborg. It is named after a nearby island and has only a capacity…

In 2010 Albrecht Ebensperger built the very first whisky distillery in Italy. She can be found in the Alps near Glorenza in the Venosta Valley, just beneath the point where Italy, Switerzland and Austria…

Some 4 years ago I got to know the Pirlot whisky, released under the same name as their beers, i.e. Kempisch Vuur (‘Campine Fire’). I tried L1, L2 and L3 – in which the L referred to the Laphroaig qua…

This is only my second encounter with this young distillery from London and the first one was very pleasant. This Oloroso cask was one of the highlights in my online tasting ‘New Kids on the Block’ and…

On 13th December 2020 I took part in the Online Christmas Tasting by the Dutch Connection, under the guidance of Michiel Wigman and my Catawiki co-worker Jeroen Koetsier. This Longmorn was one of the…

This Longmorn was bottled last year by Hart Brothers. It’s a young malt, at cask strength, that was finished on a Marsala wine cask.The nose is pretty shy. It takes a while before it offers some straw…