I has only been a few months since I tried a 10 years old Linkwood from The Ultimate, but that was one from 1984, bottled in 1995 from a sherry butt. This is again a 10 years old, but from a completely…

James Eadie is a young independent bottler – started in 2016 – run by Rupert Patrick who started his career in the wine business in 1988, but made the transition to whisky. He worked for MacLeod Disti…

Another Linkwood from 1984, this time bottled by van Wees from Holland in their by now almost legendary The Ultimate series. The Ultimate counts more than 1000 single casks and has slowly garnered som…

Linkwood is one of Diageo’s workhorses that produces primarily for the blenders. Important customers are White Horse, Haig, Bell’s and Dimple. Only a small percentage is bottled as single malt. This…

Ooh, the boys and girls of the Belgian whisky club BYOB-C, ‘biopsy’ for short, have released another Mobsters on Mopeds, this time with a Flandria motobike on the label. It’s their 9th release already…

Let me just repeat that the Girvan grain distillery is owned by William Grant & Sons, the family behind Glenfiddich, Balvenie & Kininvie. Did you know that the site in South Ayrshire was a weapons fac…

Ah, another one of those old grains from Invergordon, this time from 1972 and bottled by Crom in 2015. Nowhere to be found nowadays, I’m afraid. My buddy Manny provided me with a sample.It comes very…

I already tried this last summer, but did not make any notes. I would like to correct that mistake now, because this is a beautiful grain. Distilled in the year old birth of Dearly Beloved, so it must…

A young grain bottled in the ‘Rare Old Grain’ series. Where's the logic in that? It is a sister cask from the Invergordon 2009 from the same bottler in their Octave series. This one was also bottled for…

‘Waffles and Maple Syrup’. That’s the name Charles McLean and the tasting panel gave this 30 years old grain from Invergordon. That leaves little to the imagination, obviously. Let’s see if I agree.Yup…