Scotch Whisky reviews

The final Jura to try is the special Boutique Barrel Bourbon JO. Heaven knows what the XU, JI and JO mean, but it is definitively good whisky. This one matured in the moist and cool Warehouse Number 1…

I am finishing up this row of Jura with two so-called Boutique Barrels. I tasted the 11 Year Old Heavy Peat XU finish several months ago and enjoyed that very much. Today, I am putting the Sherry Finish…

I suppose it would have been wiser to introduce myself to Talisker via the signature 10 yo, but I seem to get less wise as I get older. Every time I stop to think, I forget to start again.Actually, this…

I´ll keep this short. When I reach out for a blend, I always intend to go and explore my cabinet, take my time with this and that ... I do, and usually I am left neutral. In the end my hand always rea…

In their third (actually fourth, but the first was called Inaugural) release, the Dutch bottles Archives got hold of a cask of Isle of Jura. Or at least part of a cask. I think. Only 60 bottles were…

Ian Macleod Distiller’s Chieftain’s Choice range has been around for many years and is somewhat hit and miss. Their whisky appears in so called Small Batches, but what is small exactly if you know that…

In the range Romantique, with truly magnificent labels, the German Indie The Whisky Agency bottled quite a few gems. One of those is this 23 Year Old Isle of Jura, which is surprisingly dark for a bou…

The current version of the 21 Year Old is bottled at 46% ABV, but I got a sample from an older bottling, still at 40%. There is even a bottling at 43% out there. Looks like Jura has been playing around…