Michael Walsh is the youngest Master Distiller in Ireland. He works hard every day to distill whiskey at Boann, but for now they have to make do with whiskey bought elsewhere until their own spirit has…

The Boann Distillery is a new Irish one, built in 2017. They only started distilling in 2019, so what they are putting out today is so-called sourced whiskey. At first I will try this 5 years old Double…

I confess, I have no idea what Mizen Head means, but this Irish single malt was released by West Cork Distillers. It was matured on bourbon casks and then got a finish on bodega sherry casks. Sweet,…

When The Nectar, a famous Belgian importer, selects a single cask to have bottled in their name, we expect it to be good. The fact that it was bottled at cask strength already makes my heart leap. This…

I have not yet tried a lot of whiskey from West Cork and what I have tried so far has been okay-ish at best. I have to confess that for this bourbon cask – a blend by the way – my expectations are low…

The Kylver Series releases are all named after the so-called Kylver Stone, a tombstone on Gotland from the 5th Century. This 5th expression, bottled in 2019, is a vatting of first fill bourbon and PX…

In February 2019 I tried this whisky before it could be named as such. The cask was filled in November 2017, to it would take at least until November 2020 before it was worthy of the name. Tom Haseldo…

The first official release from the Torabhaig distillery, founded on Skye in 2017, sold out in a flash. This despite the fact that, like many other inaugural releases we’ve seen in recent months, it is…

Prima Vinum, a Belgian whisky shop, selected a sherry butt that was put to sleep in 2007 at Douglas Laing, containing spirit from the lesser known Miltonduff distillery. They had it bottled last August…

AnCnoc’s Peaty Collection consists of releases that refer to utensils used to harvest peat: Barrow, Tushkar, Rutter, Flaughter, Cutter and Rascan, further upholstered with Peatheart and Peatlands. Today…