It's a dreary, rainy holiday Monday afternoon so we need something strong and peaty.This is a cask-strength version of Compass Box's Peat Monster, bottled in 2013 for the 10th anniversary of the standard…

This one is really special, the 20 Year Old Bell's Royal Reserve, bottled in the 1970s. I purchased this one at the LCBO online auction. It's been open for almost a year.The colour is a dark amber. Rich…

I bought this 2001 Bell's Christmas Decanter through an online auction a couple of years ago (it's been open for a year or so). It is part of a series celebrating great Scottish inventors, so this one…

While I was in Campbeltown a few years ago, I walked into a thrift shop and found, for £15 (I think) a Bell's ceramic decanter commemorating the wedding of Charles and Diana. Of course, I didn't think…

Today is particular date that I told myself I had to review a bunch of Bell's scotches that I have sitting around (more on why this particular date in the next review). I had thought I reviewed Bell's…

This is the last dram of a bottle of Glenlivet Nadurra (Gaelic for "natural"), this one finished in a cask that held a heavily peated scotch (probably from Islay). Like the other bottlings in the Nadurra…

Our final CC was distilled in 1977, and is a 1L bottle (purchased in the same lot as the 1985, it's the larger bottle on the left in the picture).The colour is a pale yellow. Citrusy on the nose with…

This one was distilled in 1983 and bottled in 1989, in a limited edition opaque black bottle with white and gold lettering (it's very pretty!) I don't know how many of these bottles were released, but…

Every few months, the LCBO holds an online spirits auction (they also do a separate online wine auction simultaneously) through Waddington's. While prices often go through the roof for desirable bottles…

Our second whisky today is a brand new release from Wiser's, in their Commemorative Series (which I guess is annual?) This one commemorates the 200th anniversary of the 49th Parallel (which runs along…