Scotch Whisky reviews

The guys of the Ypres Whisky Friends have realized their first club bottling. It’s an Islay Blended Malt, although that is to be taken with a grain of salt. The cask number leaves no doubt that this is…

At Gourmet Experience Callao, date is Jan 12, 2015.A lemon yellow pour with a golden cast. Aroma is rather low: some sweet scents (the likes of cinnamon and caramel) on the fore, a hint of grapefruit and…

At Only You Boutique Hotel Madrid, over a nice conversation with my uncle.An intense and bright golden to amber pour. Aroma is really intense, one of the most intense whiskies I've tasted: of course the…

Laphroaig has released a special, limited edition bottling every year since 2008, named Cairdeas. For those not fluent in Gaelic, "Cairdeas" (pronounced "CAR-chiss" or "CAR-chase") means "friendship".…

Nose: lots of bright, heady aromas here. Juicy tangerine, candied lemon peel, dried mango. Underneath the vibrant fruit there is brown sugar and butterscotch. Sparkling, clean, and malty.Taste: soft…

Boy, oh boy another one of those very young and very strong Caol Ila, this time from the stables of Signatory, bottled in those mighty decanters from the Cask Strength Collection. They are a pain to pour…

Cooper’s Choice (a label from the Vintage Malt Company) launched this NAS Caol Ila early this year. It matured on American oak before being finished on an oloroso sherry cask. Will you look at that color…

This single sherry hogshead of young Caol Ila was bottled for the 15th anniversary of WIN – Whisky Import Nederland – and yielded 295 bottles at cask strength. My buddy Marcel from Holland sent me a…

Some 10 years ago, you could buy this 30 years old Coal Ila from the Bladnoch Forum for less than 250 EUR. A decade later, that has become quite unthinkable. So I’m happy to have been able to score a…

I remember naming a Caol Ila 26 Year Old 1982 Rare Auld from Duncan Taylor ‘on of the best Caol Ila ever tried’ way back in 2013. Today I’m trying one from the same bottler in the same series, but it’s…