Scotch Whisky reviews

This is the standard NAS bottling of Glenrothes - or at least, it used to be as I'm not sure they make this anymore (it's not on their website). Most official Glenrothes bottlings are vintage releases…

I first tasted the Quinta Ruban many years ago. My uncle got the previous 12 YO version at the duty free and I had it a few times at his house. I quite liked it. Then it seemed to disappear for a long…

For the 15th anniversary of Belgian importer The Nectar, a lot of new bottlings were presented at their top festival Spirits in the Sky. This is one of them, from a closed distillery to boot. This…

In March 2019 I tasted private cask #141 that was bottled by the guys from BYOB-C and today I get my hands on a sample of cask #140 that was bottled for the collective CasQueteers. Small world, right?…

Whisky Warehouse is the Belgian importer and representative of Gordon & Macphail and regularly a bottling is launched especially for them. This is one of those: a Blair Athol in the Connoisseurs Choice…

Cask 88 is a Scottish company mainly engaged in trading barrels, designing bottles and bottling for companies, particularly in the Far East. But in 2016 they bottled a whisky under their own label for…

Not so long ago I was asked to host an online tasting for the Malt Society of Arabia! Admit it, that's special. This club, MSA for short, has been around for more than 11 years. They are all expats who…

Coastal Boy? Never heard of it. And yet this German independent bottler – Mario Walter – has been active for a while. Most of his 'Eigenabfüllungen' are bottles of 350ml or 500ml, including this special…

The Meadowside Blending Company bottles both single malt and single grain. The former under the label The Maltman and the latter under – you guessed it – the label The Grainman. This Maltman bottling was…

Elixir Distillers is the name of the company under which Sukhinder Singh of The Whisky Exchange itself bottles malts. Last year this 'A Speyside Distillery' appeared on the market, in which the origin…