A few months ago I tried the Batch 2, Batch 3 and new ‘Unbatched’ Teeling Pot Still at a tasting with the Master Distiller Alex Chasko near Brussels. I found them to be interesting, but not particularly…

Just like the Teeling Barleywine this Plantation Rum is also part of the Small Batch Collaboration series. No less than 12.000 bottles were released. We know Plantation as quite a tropical rum, so I…

The Teeling boys like to experiment with all kinds of casks. Take this Barleywine for example, a small batch release in collaboration with Galway Bay Brewery. First a maturation of about 6 years on…

Make no mistake, this West Cork is not own product, but sourced from other distilleries. Their own spirit is not yet mature. Moreover this is a blended Irish whiskey, so it contains both single malt and…

West Cork does not yet have own production in the market – they have only just started so their own distillate is still maturing – yet they do have whiskey on the market. Sourced whiskey, obviously. This…

Around 70% of what is distilled at Cardhu goes into the famous Johnnie Walker blends. The other 30% hits the market as single malt. We’ll try the 18 Year Old, which is very popular in France, Portugal…

Cardhu was built in 1824 by John Cumming – albeit as Cardow – in the heart of Speyside. In 1893 it was bought by John Walker & Sons to provide enough Speyside style malt for their popular blends. Today…

Whisky lovers like you and me sometimes forget about what I would call ‘the basics’. We are so spoiled with the liquid nectar that we no longer stand still to try the stuff we all started with – well,…

Can someone please explain to me how Lombard was able to bottle a 20 years old Clynelish at 63.3% ABV? I’m sure the only explanation is the fact that the spirit was filled into the cask at a much higher…

Another Clynelish from the golden 1990s, but then with a Marsala finish by Italian bottler Wilson & Morgan. It has been in the bottle for as long as it had been in the cask. The fact that it could still…