Scotch Whisky reviews

I am putting two Highland Park from 1998 head-to-head. Both were bottled for the Belgian market. On the one hand there is the Smoking Buffalo 2nd Edition, on the other there is this 14 Year Old for a…

The Exclusive Range from David Stirk’s Creative Whisky Company bottles relatively young, affordable, easy drinking whiskies. This one, with its 13 years, falls into that category. The nose is fresh and…

A while back Ardbeg released a new limited edition bottling called Ardbeg Galileo. It was a 12 yr old whisky aged in first filled ex bourbon casks and ex Marsala casks from Sicily. It was bottled at 49%…

Here is another HP from the Creative Whisky Company, this time bottled in their Exclusive Casks range, meaning it was finished on an extraordinary cask, in this case a Pedro Ximenez sherry cask, which…

This Highland Park is a bottling of whisky on Spanish sherry casks and hence often considered to be the opposite of the Leif Eriksson, which matured wholly on bourbon casks. Drakkar is Nors for dragon…

Today, I am going back into time to put two independent bottlings of Highland Park head-to-head, both from 1998. Let me start with this Smoking Buffalo 2nd Edition, in honour of AA Gent, a local football…

This is a review of a newly opened bottle. I will add updates to reflect significant oxidative effects, as needed Nose: very pungent combination of refined high-pitched wine fruitiness, rosewater, car…

We sampled this bottle on the 14th of November 2012. Although it was harsh at first and had very divided opinions, it is actually a very pleasant dram. As with all cask strength whiskies, it improves…

Bedlington Malt Whisky Society sampled this bottle on the 14th of November 2012. After we had sampled a bottle of Glengoyne 12 Year Old Cask Strength... Massive difference!! With palates properly cle…