Hepburn’s Choice is a label from Langside Distillers, which in turn is related to Hunter Laing & Co. It’s a very young and cut Mortlach. I picked up this sample during my visit to the whisky festival in…

The Belgian whisky club of the year 2020, McShelfie, bottled – together with a whole range of colleagues including The Bonding Dram who provided me with the sample – this 10 years old Ballechin that…

I’ll be honest, I did a double take when I looked at the label of this Miltonduff from the new Belgian bottler Double-V. Not because of the distillation or bottling date (5th October 2008 and 29th July…

This malt was distilled on 9th March 2009 and bottled on 11th June 2020. It’s from the Tobermory distillery on Mull, but the label clearly states this is a Ledaig, the peated expression. Young Ledaig,…

A new Belgian bottler has arrived on the scene and the name is Double-V – I presume the owners’ last names starting with the letter v has a lot to do with that. These pals seem to be crazy about cycling…

When the corona crisis hit, Bart Joosten from Eaglesburn launched an appeal to pre-order his next release, so that he could create enough cask flow to keep the stills operational. The bottles would be…

How great must it be to have a brother that makes whisky? And then when you get married, you get your own whisky as wedding gift (well, not quite – the spirit went into the cask on the wedding day).…

I guess it’s more than fair to say that this is a golden oldie. Distilled when yours truly was just a 9 year old kid and by now more than 20 years in the bottle as well. So just a tad longer in the glass…

The 25 Year Old Glenrothes from the Soleo Collection is the oldest that is still affordable for mortal man, with a price tag – still hefty, to be sure – of around 300 EUR. The next one in the series is…

Exactly two years ago, in September 2018, Glenrothes announced that they were abandoning the so-called Vintages. In it’s stead they put out the Soleo Collection with age statement. They now have a 10,…