The oldest bottler in Scotland is Gordon & Macphail. In 2020 they celebrated their 125th anniversary. The Connoisseurs Choice is one of their oldest and most popular ranges and has undergone quite a few…

It is well known that the panel comes up with very strange names for their single cask releases. But for this 11 years old Mannochmore from 2003 they made me raise my eyebrows. Ghymkhanas & Gym Class?…

Mannochmore is a surprisingly young distillery, founded by John Haig & Co in 1971. Until 2008 she was run by the crew of the neighbouring distillery Glenlossie. She produces primarily for blenders and…

Mark Watt recently launched his own whisky brand, the wonderfully alliterating What Whisky. The first release included, among other, this young Mannochmore, a vatting of two hogsheads that were finished…

This Mannochmore was bottled by Claxton’s, Which means it comes in that very typical square bottle that reminds me of perfume instead of whiskey. Nevertheless it is a single refill sherry hogshead that…

The famous La Maison du Whisky bottled a series of malts in 2018 under the resounding name Four Styles. The four whisky’s, all at drinking strength, are The Fruity (a Mannochmore 2012), The Malty (an…

In 2013, Adelphi released this Tobermory from 1994, which had matured for 18 long years on a sherry butt. I feel the ABV is still quite high after almost two decades. But the color makes me happy up…

Cooper’s Choice – a label of the Vintage Malt Whisky Company – already released a few NAS-whiskies under the banner ‘Sherry Bomb’ and I’ve had the good fortune of trying a couple. If you like ‘deep…

This very dark Tobermory was bottled by Signatory in their famous Un-Chill Filtered series, but for Kirsch Whisky, the German importer with HQ in Syke, some 15 kilometers south of Bremen. Will you look…

Another very young malt from Tobermory, only 8 years on a sherry cask, with a devilishly high ABV. But in this case it’s the unpeated malt from the distillery, so no Ledaig this time around. Almost 70%…