Scotch Whisky reviews

Single casks that are released by Belgian importer The Nectar can be bought blind. They release nothing but gems. This beautiful Clynelish on sherry – from the magical year 1995 – is no exception. Read…

Dun Bheagan is a label from independent bottler Ian Macleod. Some 15 years ago they launched a 20 Year Old Clynelish that was distilled in 1983. I was thirteen and didn’t even own a moped. When it was…

Last year Gordon & Macphail gave their Connoisseurs Choice – the core range – a completely new look. This young Clynelish can still be found as it was recently bottled, for around 105 EUR.Fairly mineral…

In 2014, Diageo launched this Clynelish in their Special Releases, but it was not very popular. It was long available. Even today, you can still find it on some shelves. Might be to do with the fact that…

We all know that the warehouses in Pitlochry contains quite some beautiful casks. Andrew Symington has amassed quite the collection in the past decades. This is a Clynelish from 2008. A teenager at…

This whisky spent almost (well) as much time in the bottle than is has on the sherry cask. Bottled in 2009, this is a Clynelish from 1995 – the golden period in my book – at cask strength in one of those…

There was a time that Dominiek Bouckaert was intensely into whisky. For years he released wonderful whisky under his label of The Whiskyman. In 2012 he was able to put his hands on this cask of Clynelish…

The Auld Alliance is a prestigious whisky bar in Singapore run by a French guy – Emmanuel Dron – and his lovely wife. I have the pleasure of knowing the owners, but have not yet been to Singapore myself…

In 2014 you could put this Clynelish from Cadenhead under your X-mas tree, for it’s the Christmas Bottling for Belgian importer The Nectar. I recently poured it at a tasting and it was very well received…

This very pale Clynelish came from the warehouses of Signatory and was bottled a few years ago by three Flemish whisky shops: The Bonding Dram, The Single Malt Whisky Shop and Prima Vinum. It’s a single…