Only just a few weeks ago I tried the first batch of this Chaos, a malt from Caol Ila composed from two PX hogshead that were put to sleep in 2010 and a refill hogshead from 2009. For this second batch…

Name-wise this is very apt considering what North Star Spirits already bottled with Spica, Vega and Sirius. All of them are references to the galaxy. Chaos was, after all, what came after the Big Bang…

I have no idea what Hinata means, nor am I familiar with the bottler The Stillman’s DE. It appears to be a German company and a relative newcomer. Hinata is, according to my teenage son, an important…

We know WhiskySponge mostly from the wonderfully satrical blog in which he truly mocks everyone in the world of whisky. It comes as no surprise that the inimitable strong man behind the blog – my friend…

As the name suggests, this series from Gordon & Macphail is meant to offer the different styles of malt that can be discovered from the Promsied Land. In the glass I have a Caol Ila that matured for 13…

A young, pale Caol Ila, matured on a bourbon cask. You'll be hard pressed to go more classic. Bottled by Cadenhead in 2020 in their Original Collection. Weird that the year of distillation isn't menti…

The Nectar, Belgian importer, selected this so-called Charred Wine Hogshead from the stables of Signatory, near Pitlochry. It was filled in June 2013 with spirit from my favorite Islay distillery and…

Obviously the Lindores Abbey Distillery enjoys the reputation of the historically important location, the abbey which is considered by many to be the spiritual home of whisky, where Friar John Cor was…

At the end of 2018 the long awaited first release from the Kingsbarn Distillery appeared and they are slowly building up a range, but one needs to be patient. In the meantime, my wiskybuddy Anthony…

Bladnoch is another one of those distilleries that does not appear on my scope very often, but a while ago I got this sample of a 16 years old from 1992, bottled in 2009, but my buddy Manny. It’s a…