Scotch Whisky reviews

The lion’s share of what is produced at Auchroisk goes to the blenders. Justerini & Brooks is their biggest customer. If you want to try it as a single malt, you have to look for an independent release…

The Raw Cask series from Blackadder is known for three things. First, there is always a bit of cask residue in the bottle that should make you believe it came straight from the cask. Second, it’s always…

Asta Morris is at it again and has prepared a few new releases for us (although it took him long enough, I was aware of this upcoming bottling since November last year). Ah, the good ol’ Scots, eh?…

Bar a mistake on my part, this is Asta Morris’ first outing to Glen Moray. A surprising choice if you know that this distillery is something of an underdog. But we all know that this will not stop Crazy…

The International Malt Whisky Festival Gent offers visitors a unique festival bottling. This year it was a single cask of Auchroisk 2002, of which 246 bottles were released. It was bottled by Edition…

Auchroisk (say ‘o-thrusjk’) is a very young distillery, only founded in 1974. It’s a workhorse for the blenders and hardly sees the light of day as a single malt. This is a single cask that appeared in…

I had good reason to be wary of another NAS "reserve" bottling from Glenlivet, after trying Founder's Reserve. But this one is partially finished in cognac casks, so curiosity got the better of me. Sweet…

This is my first Glenallachie. Been meaning to grab a bottle for a while. Due essentially to Ralfy constantly banging on about it. When they brought out a sherry cask 15 year old I asked my wife to get…

My wonderful wife picked us up a bottle of this on NYE (too much of it was consumed that evening), and now a cold, rainy Saturday afternoon seems like a nice time to properly sit down and do a review.…

• This sample was graciously provided by @Nozinan* The whisky was opened Dec 9/2017, and the sample poured May 29/2019* Sipped neat from a Glencairn glass**Tasting notes*** Nose: It's a bit shy, and comes…