Scotch Whisky reviews

I'm always looking to try new whiskies, whiskies that I haven't encountered before. This pursuit leads me to going to whisky tastings, oftentimes a couple times a month. It's led me to starting a whisky…

Gordon & Macphail, the well known bottler from Elgin, released this 9 Year Old Macallan under their Speymalt banner, an obvious reference to the region of production. It is matured on a sherry cask, wich…

The new Macallan 1824 Series consists of four NAS-bottlings, which was a very contested matter in the blogosphere. The famous distillery concentrated on color rather than age and named them Gold, Amber…

The next whisky in this little Macallan line-up comes from a bourbon cask. It is a single cask that was bottled by A.D. Rattray in 2011.The nose is surprisingly fresh and floral. Dried grass and heathery…

I've been drinking this 47% HP 21yo for three years from miniatures, simply because there was limited availability and the 70cl bottles were not ready for release until very recently. The 5cl miniatures…

In 2001 Macallan released the so-called Travel Series in small boxes that you could put next to each other to created a little diorama with a car, boat, train and plane. Nice gimmick, but is the whisky…

This Macallan was bottled under the Speymalt label. It is a distillate from 20th November 1970 (I had not even celebrated my first birthday!) and bottled on 1st September 2010, especially for La Maison…

This bottling from Gordon & Macphail does not name a distillery, but rumour has it this is a Macallan as well. Hence I taste it in this little line-up. It is simply named Macphail’s 10 Year Old and has…

After the mediocre Macallan Twenties, let me try the Thirties now. Again matured on sherry and again a small bottle of only 50cl.This smells a lot better than the Twenties. Dried fruits but with loads…