Scotch Whisky reviews

I picked up this bottle a few years ago and had it laying around, not really sure when to open it. During the Xmas holidays of 2019 into 2020 I popped it open finally. Expecting the same experience (or…

When someone talks about triple-distilled whisky, Ireland usually comes to mind. If you specifiy triple-distilled single malt scotch, someone might name Auchentoshan or the silent (but soon to be revived…

I confess, the official releases from the Speyside Distillery (be it the new Spey releases or the old Speyside releases) are not much to my liking. But sometimes you can find a hidden gem in the wareh…

Since the last takeover of this distillery – by Harvey’s in 2013 – the name of the whisky was changed from the rather pompous and confusing Speyside to simply Spey. This is quite a young distillery, in…

The Speyside Distillery is something of an unknown. Most of the production goes into blends in Asia. Apart from that they also produced Beinn Dhu, Black Burn, Cu Dubh, Drumguish and Glentromie whisky as…

This is the sixth in a series of 24 reviews of the 2019 whisky advent calendar, the result of seizing an opportunity when the LCBO dropped the price of this set by 50% in early 2020. Call me weak.Before…

Since I’m doing a review of Ardmore’s contribution to the Boutiquey Advent calendar for 2019, I thought I would review a couple of other minis and samples from the distillery on the same day. This one…

In May 2018 I reviewed the Ardmore Traditional Cask. The bottle had been open since 2014. I was not reaching for it often and thankfully @Paddockjudge took the bottle off my hands to make room in a very…

Loch Gorm is the heavily sherried expression of Kilchoman's stable, I really enjoyed both the 2016 & 2017 versions but did not have a chance to try 2018 but the reviews on tha one were mixed.The 2019…

I had thought I had already reviewed this one (as well as the 10-year-old) but I double checked and I couldn't find them anywhere on Connosr. So either Pam and I are nuts (she thought she remembered that…