Scotch Whisky reviews

Invited a friend over with her longtime boyfriend a few weeks ago. She's a huge proponent of Isla whiskies. She's been on the tour over in Scotland a few times and maintains a collection of some very…

Nose: Light and fresh. Lemon and orange peel, sweet tones arise and wrestle with the spirit which is barely noticeable. No heavy or pungent smell, very gentle and light. A pleasure to nose because it has…

Dalwhinnie 15 years old, a whisky from the highest distillery in Scotland does the box states. I’ve had this bottle for some time now and enjoyed every single dram coming out of it. Now the bottom is…

Nose: Oranges, mandarin, hints of lime. Sweetness and fruit, accompanied with rainfall. Colour: A shimmering deep yellow almost like apple juice. Taste: Gentle citrus and upon opening the mouth an imm…

This is a single blend. That may sound a bit weird, but when you know that Lochside produced both malt and grain whisky, it may sound not so weird anymore. They were blended at birth, meaning that both…

Orkney? Bere? In an Arran island malt? how come? I bet you are asking yourselves the same questions. So a little explaining is needed here: Bere is Scotland’s oldest cultivated barley and was commonly…

Just like the Lochside 1964 from Scott’s Selection, this is also a single blend, in which the grain and maltwhisky were brought together in the cask at birth. In this case, the cask is refill sherry butt…

Lochside Distillery closed in 1992 and was demolished in 2005. So far I have only tried old Lochside. So let me try a younger version today from this lost distillery. It is a bottling from Gordon &…

Nose: On the nose this Islay blend of malts conjures images of campfires on the beach. It releases a smokey fragrance that warms the nostrils with peat and an unmistakeable sea breeze. Colour: This malt…