Scotch Whisky reviews

During Spirits in the Sky, the amazing whisky festival in Brussels organized by The Nectar, I participated in the Cadenhead's Warehouse Tasting where we could taste a number of cask samples from the…

High Spirits Dranken is a Dutch importer, which imports, among other things, the releases of relative newcomer Claxton's from Scotland. It is therefore not surprising that a release was bottled especi…

Casqueteers is a group of whisky lovers who regularly buy a cask that you can subscribe to (for example, I also have a few cask parts to my name and I wait patiently for bottling). The one that is now…

Wullie McMorland, the sympathetic Netherscot who has been running the well-known whisky restaurant The Hielander in Alkmaar since 1989 and was appointed Keeper of the Quaich in 2016, also organizes the…

In just a few years, Phil and Simon Thompson have emerged as bottlers of excellent single casks (in addition to their own distilling escapades with Dornoch Distillery, of course). This is one of them.…

Mr Artist is none other than my friend Maarten voor de Poorte, who after 13 years of designing glasses took a completely different approach and took over the liquor shop Slijterij Post in Kampen (The…

Prior to its reopening in 1998 by Gordon & MacPhail, Benromach had a somewhat checkered past. Periods of dormancy or mothballing, coupled with a string of ownership changes led to its official closing…

The time has finally come. The new Johnnie Walker Blue Label Ghost & Rare has reached the Whivie HQ. After the Brora, Port Ellen, Glenury Royal and Pittyvaich releases (and let's not forget the Lege…

It's an open secret that relatively young Port Askaig (like the one that's in my glass now) comes from Caol Ila. This was distilled in 2006 and bottled at cask strength after 15 years in honor of the…

Ah, the debate around Sinterklaas and Zwarte Piet (and especially the latter of course), is still soaring. I don't understand that. For me, that's a children's party. In 2021, the Dutch bottler van Wees…