Scotch Whisky reviews

A few years ago Gordon & Macphail introduced the Discovery series in which they bottle affordable malts at drinking strength. This 12 years old Balblair matured on a bourbon cask. My buddy Pat sent me…

The third bottling in ‘The Balvenie Stories’ is a single cask of 26 years old. It will set you back some 1.000 EUR though. According to legend, one day in 1992 the distillery took delivery of some dark…

Last year The Balvenie launched the series ‘The Balvenie Stories’, consisting of three bottles: the 12 years old The Sweet Toast of American Oak, the 14 years old The Week of Peat and the 26 years old…

The Rare Malts Selection is a series of bottlings – started in 1995 – from Diageo’s past in which single malts were released from mostly closed or demolished distilleries. But the success was huge so the…

In 1993 independent bottler Gordon & Macphail took over the terrains, buildings and installations of Benromach, renovated for four years to modernize it so that all production could be handled by just…

‘Hey, Mark, I have here a Blair Athol. I was wondering if you had tried it yet.’ I confess, with almost 4500 tasted whiskies on my counter, I do not know this by heart. ‘I’ll have to check my website,’…

Blair Athol started its career in 1798 as the Aldour Distillery, named after the Allt Dour Burn, which means ‘old burn of the otter’. This burn still provides the distillery with production water. Since…

Blair Athol is one of the oldest distilleries in Scotland, founded in Pitlochry in 1798 by John Stewart and Robert Robertson, then under the name Aldour Distillery. In 1825 she was rechristened to Blair…

The Benrinnes distillery, founded in 1829, was sold to Dewar’s and Sons in 1923. This company became part of DCL, precursor to today’s Diageo, in 1925. The Single Malts of Scotland is a label from Elixir…

In 1896 Benrinnes was ravaged by a great fire and the owners needed some serious reconstruction to get it up and running again. In 1956 it was renovated anew and in 1964 the malt floor was replaced by…