Since 2011 spirit trickles from the stills at Shinshu Mars and for this Double Cellars a vatting was made from malt that matured in warehouses from Shinshu and Tsunuki, hence the name. There are two…

There is not a lot to be found about this whisky. The blend is ‘produced’ by the San Food Company from Nishizakicho, Itoman, Okinawa on the very southern coast of Japan. The company is active in the…

I was lucky enough to also get my hands of a sample of the Ainnir – which means something like ‘awakening’ in Gaelic – the inaugural release from Nc’nean of which bottle number one sold in a charity…

I was very charmed by the first batch of this new distillery, of which the name is best pronounced ‘nook-knee-anne’. Just like batch 1 this is a release of 5.040 bottles with the whisky again cut to 46%…

Cask 670 was also put to sleep with peated spirit, but this is a former oloroso cask, which the color clearly confirms. And the difference with the ex-bourbon cask could not be bigger.On the nose I get…

Here is another single cask sample that will not be released as such, but is meant to show the house style. This is an ex-bourbon cask that was filled with Ardnamurchan’s peaty spirit.The nose certainly…

During an online tasting on 4th November with Graeme Mackay and Connal Mackenzie we were ensured that the next general release from Ardnamurchan is set for January 2021, but sooner than that we have a…

Another first release from a new distillery, always something to look forward to. In this case, Ardnamurchan actually waited until their whisky was five years old. This is a vatting of 53 casks: 65%…

I must confess, the first time I tried this Mortlach, I was not very impressed. The second time was much better, but I still was not convinced. I’m writing these notes during the third round (luckily I…

Ah… a golden oldie from the Rare Malts Selection, longer in the bottle by now than it ever spent in the cask. Distilled in 1978 and bottled after 20 years at a whopping 62.2% ABV. You’ll have a very hard…