Scotch Whisky reviews

Old Pulteney 12 @Day 0, 2012-05-28A U.K. import, added as a "filler" in a special shipment from Whisky Online, May 2012. My first Pulteney! A steal at 19 GBP (about AU $30).Nose: Delicate. Sweet Fruity…

This was close to a blind purchase for me. Perhaps a one-eye-shut purchase would be more accurate. I had a wee sample of Mortlach 21 last winter and was suitably impressed. This, plus my fondness for the…

Nose: The heavy sherry signature in this dram is no surprise. It wafts up from the glass like mist from the Garden of Eden, along with a more complex fruitiness belying dates, figs, and allspice.Palate…

Nose: seaside notes of salt and seaweed, medicinal and iodine notes as well. The peat and smoke is quite large but isn't very powerful. Large underlying notes of malted barley and cereal. Palate: Has a…

“There are horrors beyond life's edge that we do not suspect, and once in a while man's evil prying calls them just within our range.” --HP Lovecraft, The Thing on the Doorstep (one of the few modern…

This Dalmore was distilled on 22 March 1973 and matured for three long decades on a Matusalem sherry cask from the famous Gonzalez Byass Bodega. It was bottled in 2003.Ha, what a sweet nose! And punchy…

The 1263 from the name of this Dalmore refers to the year in which the Clan MacKenzie (later owners of the land on which the distillery was built) saved King Alexander III from being killed by a wild…

At a local whisky festival I spotted a bottle of Mortlach that just screamed to be picked up. It was not just the price tag of 55 EUR for a 2cl dram. The fact that the label sported 1936 in large print…

Nose: considering the whiskys massive strength of alcohol the nose has little burn, very nice notes of sherry (pudding, plumb and raisins) some notes of rich butterscotch and dark honey as well as some…