In another era Edradour was sometimes ridiculed as Edrasour, but since Andrew Symington and his team took over, this little distillery in Pitlochry is going from strength to strength. The people of van…

It’s no secret that Dutch bottles van Wees gets its single sherry butts from the Signatory warehouses – logical as Signatory owns Edradour – but Andrew Symington from time to time decides to bottle one…

A new independent bottler has appeared! We all know Mark Watt from his days at Cadenhead of course, but he has recently gone solo with a brand new… err… brand – with a little help from crowdfunding. Watt…

Whisky-Fässle is a German indie bottler, active since 2006 with already quite a few releases on their resumé. This Port Charlotte – from the Bruichladdich distillery – was bottled last year from a single…

Adelphi, the independent bottler who has recently also released its very first single malt – Ardnamurchan – bottled this old Bowmore. It’s a refill sherry cask that was filled in 1994 and then matured…

An independently bottled Bowmore from one of Scotland’s oldest bottlers? No need to ask me twice. No less than 17 years did this Bowmore spend on a bourbon cask before yielding still 270 bottles at a…

This is another one of those golden oldies that has spent 24 years in the bottle now, more than it ever spent in the cask. And it’s from the legendary Port Ellen distillery, bottled by Gordon & Macphail…

Bunna keeps releases malts with impossible names… Rubha a’ Mhail should be pronounced ‘roo-a-val’ and is the name of one of the lighthouses close to Bunnahabhain, some 6 kilometers to the north on the…

135! That’s the number of different Caol Ila I have tried so far. And not five were not to my liking. They call Caol Ila Mr Consistent for a reason. And I have a (very) soft spot for this malt. So when…

The Dark Side of Islay series from Malts of Scotland currently consist of 4 releases: Scarabus from 2016, Octovulin from 2017, this Mulindry from 2018 and the 2020 release of Ardenistiel. These are all…