So this is my first Cutty Sark! This blend was created in 1923 for Berry Bros. & Rudd, and was the first very pale-coloured whisky in the world. Named after a famous Scottish-built clipper ship, the…

I thought I had reviewed this one ages ago, so let's do it now, followed by a Dickel cask strength single barrel.This is the standard Dickel No. 12, which seems to be the Tennessee whiskey (or, as they…

I reviewed a single barrel, cask strength Dickel that was bottled for Premier Wine & Liquors, some years back, and gave it a 91. Like that one, this one is 9 years old, bottled for Seaport W&S, NYC…

Our third Burns Day malt (all of which I purchased at Scotch Whisky Auctions, by the way) is a blended malt from Douglas Laing called Big Peat. Many of you are familiar with that, but this is a small…

Last night the LCBO put on a scotch tasting that featured two new Macallans: the Rare Cask and the No. 6, both very good. The Rare Cask was fairly spicy, while the No. 6 was much subtler and quite ext…

Next up is the First Edition of the Bruichladdich 10 Year Old. Note that this is not the current bottle design, but a slightly older one (but distilled no earlier than December 2000 when the distillery…

I found myself with an older batch of the wonderful a'bunadh, this one being batch 39. Let's do a side-by-side with batch 49 (which I had scored a 91 about 11 months ago). The 39 is a freshly opened…

I was positive I must have reviewed this at some point, but it looks like I haven't - which is surprising as I've had bottles of this before. For many, the Glenfiddich 15 Year Old is solid daily dram.…

This is a blend of malt and pot still whiskies, both distilled at Midleton and bottled by Walsh Whiskey (run by Bernard Walsh), makers of The Irishman. It has no grain whiskey in it. I decanted this…

Widow Jane is a micro-distillery in Brooklyn NY. Their water source is pure limestone mineral water from the Widow Jane Mine in Rosendale NY. That's about all I know about the distillery; this bourbon…