Scotch Whisky reviews

I only recently tried a Dalmunach 2015 for Klubb23 and behold, here is a sister cask. This one first matured on a bourbon cask before it got a finish of 3 months on a small sherry wood cask. I can ima…

My first Dalmunach! Well, I tasted a young malt before that might be bottled under the banner of MMM, but it was – although very interesting – not of a nature that I would like a whole bottle of it…

For this Dufftown Cadenhead used 50% bourbon and 50% PX Sherry casks. The best of both worlds? There is no vintage on it, but apparently the youngest in the mix is 10 years old.A cartload of caramel…

Cadenhead enjoys the privilege of actually putting the suffix ‘Glenlivet’ to many of their releases. That has nothing to do with that specific distillery, but with the region whence it came. This is an…

Considering that this is only my 15th Dailuaine after more than 5.000 samples whiskies, that’s saying something about how many times you come across this distillery. Well, only 2% of all their whisky is…

Old Train Line is a series of independent bottlings by Jack Wiebers, a German bottler. In a previous life, Jack Wieber was an agent for Michael Jackson, the pop star. I find the labels of this series…

A few years ago House of Macduff, Scottish indie, bottled this 22 years old Deanston in their well-known series The Gold Cask, which is reserved for single cask releases at cask strength.Well, that nose…

I’m somewhat surprised that this is only my 19th Deanston so far. It’s a bottling from Signatory for the Belgian and Luxemburg market. No less than 851 bottles were drawn from this first fill sherry butt…

This is another Balvenie mini, this time the 15 Year Old Single Barrel. Unfortunately, the tube offers no cask info whatsoever. It is non-chill-filtered and (presumably) cask strength at 50.4%.The colour…

The colour is a deep caramel. Like many a Balvenie, the immediate hit on the nose is honey and toffee, with custard, baked apple, cinnamon and clove. Blood orange. Definite sherry note. Quite nutty. With…