Scotch Whisky reviews

Ah, Glenlivet on a sherry cask. I’ve had quite a few and often they are heavenly. This is a bottling from last year, but the Dutch company Van Wees, albeit cut to drinking strength.Sweet nose on vanilla…

Glenlivet released two 13 year old versions for Taiwan. The Oloroso Sherry Cask at 40% and the same at cask strength. I will try the one at drinking strength, courtesy of my buddy tom. Will you look at…

A Glentauchers of only 4 years old? Matured on a sherry cask and bottled at 66.6% ABV. That sound devlish and I am not only referring to the alcohol percentage.As was to be expected, this is very spirity…

Rolf Kaspar GmbH is a liquor store in Essen and Düsseldorf, Germany. They select and bottle single casks under their own label ‘Black Corbie’ and this is one of them: a young Glentauchers on sherry cask…

I was fairly certain this came from the same cask as the one I just tried. Distilled and bottled at the same time, by the same bottler, with no mention of cask number or number of bottles. I was under…

Glentauchers is a lesser known Speysider – founded in 1897 – that produces primarily for the blenders. Their biggest customers are Black & White, Ballantine’s, Teachers and Chivas Regal. Official rele…

This is an older release of Glen Keith from the Old Malt Cask series, when it still belonged to Douglas Laing (before the demerger, now it belongs to his brother’s company Hunter Laing & Co). It was…

Halfway between Dundee and Aberdeen you’ll find the village Brechin, where the Glencadam Distillery was founded in 1825 (near the closed North Port-Brechin distillery, by the way). In 2003 the distillery…

The distillery was built in 1967 and for decades produced exclusively for the blenders. Only in 2005 was it launched as a single malt! But in 2017 the distillery was taken over by Billy Walker (who had…

Glenturret is a distillery that does not appear on my radar often, but recently my whisky buddy Manny offered me a sample of a 30 years old. Could not pass that up, obviously. It was bottled several…