Scotch Whisky reviews

I confess, in the past few weeks I seem to have developed some kind of fetish for Clynelish. That’s not too hard as it’s such a good whisky. And through a friend in Holland I was able to get a sample of…

Air Leth is Gaelic ‘prominent’. It’s a series from the Dutch company Whisky Import Nederland – WIN for short – used for whisky’s that they do not wish to bottled under their First Cask label, for what…

This is a very young Clynelish, if you ask me. Distilled in 2008 and bottled 2 years ago by Van Wees in Holland in their The Ultimate series. The barrel still yielded 235 bottles, at cask strength. Quite…

Clynelish from the 1990s are among the best in my book. Everything distilled between 1992 and 1997 are gems. This one from Duncan Taylor is among those. I do wonder if this is cask strength. Probably not…

In 2016 Signatory released this 20 years old Clynelish from the ‘magical year’ of 1995 in this beautiful decanter in their… err… Decanter Collection. It was – alas, I’m inclined to say – cut to 43%. But…

Clynelish celebrated its 200th anniversary last year. Well, that is to say… the original distillery was built in 1819, but is now known as Brora, of course, for in 1968 the new Clynelish was built. It’s…

I don’t believe it! It seems that I have never – NEVER! – tried a grain whisky from Dumbarton before. This distillery – which was the home base of Ballantine’s so to speak – was founded in 1938 and…

Strathclyde can be found along the river Clyde in Glasgow and was founded in 1927. It’s a Lowland grain distillery that makes up a big part of the famous Long John blend. The distillery has 7 Coffey…

Not too long ago I tried a sister cask of this one, albeit bottled by The Ultimate. But we all know that this Dutch bottler often goes looking for casks in those warehouses in Pitlochry. This is a bot…

Last November, while in Edinburgh, I got of the tram at Murrayfield Stadium and crossed the street to the North British Distillery. Unfortunately it is not open to the public and my request to take some…