The last Royal Lochnagar that I tried, just over a year ago, was the Selected Reserve from 2003. At the time, I thought it was the best Lochnagar I had tried to date (admittedly that was only 6) and look…

This Royal Salute Stone of Destiny is named after the slab of rock that was used between the 9th and 14th Century to crown Scottish (and later British) kings. In 1296 the Stone was moved to London, but…

A golden oldie, so to speak. This Bushmills was distilled in 1975 and after a quarter century of maturation bottled in the so-called Millennium Malt series. Quite a few casks were bottled at that tiem…

The Dutch importer Bresser & Timmer selected a single cask from Teeling in September 2019. Calvados! That’s something you don’t see every day. I remember a Bruichladdich from a few years ago and more…

This new Teeling is the first in the so-called Renaissance Series and matured for no less than 18 years, mostly on bourbon casks, before it got a finish for 18 months on Madeira casks. No less that 9.000…

Some three years ago I tried my first Connemara Distillers Edition. Contrary to most releases of this peaty Irish, this one is bottle not at 40% but at 43%. That gives it just a tad more body in my…

You probably noticed: this whiskey was distilled in 1992 and bottled in May 2019, so it should be 27 years old. Yet the label says 11 Year Old. How? Well, Irish whiskey can only be termed such if it…

The first 500 casks of this start up distillery went to aficionados, investors, clubs and collectors and this is one of those, bottled by the club Potstill Austria. It was labeled Briana’s Choice, but…

Early 2019 this 17 year old Irish whiskey – of which the distillery is kept secret – was bottled by German indie Rold Kaspar for the Hotel Essener Hof in Essen, Germany. Bottler and hotel cooperate often…

I have some cool friends who often send me samples and it sometimes happens that I do not remember if I already have it in my liquid library (at the time of writing some 160 samples are waiting on me)…