If you know your Scotch history a bit, you are aware that Williamson refers to the legendary Elizabeth Leitch ‘Bessie’ Williamson, the first female distillery manager in history. From 1954 until 1972 she…

Belgian bottler The Whisky Jury does not have many releases on its resumé so far, but what they’ve released has been great so far. In less than a year’s time Joeri has built up an ironclad and well…

When I first read the announcement that The Whisky Jury would launch a new Ben Nevis 1996, I thought it was a mistake. I had just tried two Ben Nevis from that Belgian bottler. Both his 23 years old from…

It is fair to say that Ben Nevis 1994 to 1997 is among the best stuff recently produced at this distillery – obviously in combination with good wood. Today I will try a single cask from 1995 – obviously…

Let’s remain on New Zealand just a bit longer and try a whisky that was distilled by Willowbank. That distillery is no more – it closed in 1997 and the still were sold to a rum producer on Fiji – but the…

I just tried the New Zealand single malt 2015 Just Hatched that was distilled in November 2015 and bottle 3 years later, in November 2018. Desiree Whitaker decided, in 2020 in honor of the local whisk…

Cardrona was founded only in 2013 by Desiree Whitaker. The distillery lies in Cardrona, between Wanaka and Queenstown at the Southern Alps in New Zealand. Building started in January 2015 and end of…

Mackmyra used a computerprogram developed by the Finse technology giant Fourkind and fed it with 75 different whisky recipes as well as awards, reviews from consumers, ratings, feedback from ambassadors…

The name of this NAS expression of Paul John leaves little to the imagination. It’s a vatting of malts that matured on oloroso casks. I can, while tasting this, not get rid of a crazy image in my mind’s…

The Lakes Distillery in Cumbria, England, was only founded in 2015. To create cashflow they initially released a blend called The One. But by now their single malt is ready to be released. Dhavall Gandhi…