Scotch Whisky reviews

In the spring @Maddie and @Victor made a trip up to Collingwood. I’ve been lucky that between trips up north, Spirit of Toronto, and a trip down south, I’ve been able to visit with them every year since…

This time I had no need to use my connections at Auchentoshan to get my hands on the new distillery cask release, because Pascal and Ellen – two close friends – visited my beloved Auchentoshan early…

Alongside the American Oak Reserve, this Auchentoshan Dark Oak was launched in September 2019 as well, exclusive to the global traveller. Next to bourbon casks, this release was also composed with olo…

The American Oak from Auchentoshan has been around for a while (2014) and is their entry level malt. It is composed with whisky that matured – as the name suggests – on American oak. This American Oak…

On a blue Monday this Halloween edition from Douglas Laing was announced on social media, but by the time yours truly got home after a hard day’s work (yeah, right) it was already sold out. Darn. But I…

Belgian bottler The Nectar introduced a whole range of new single casks in Paris and – hurray – one of them is an Auchentoshan. But I confess: the price tag of around 280 EUR made me hesitant to buy a…

Der Feinschmecker is a German (online) deli & gourmet shop that bottles spirits exclusively from time to time. No less than 10 single malts have already been bottled for them by the German bottler Malts…

Every time Auchentoshan opens a new cask for the visitors, I’m right there to order a few bottles. For each and every one of them is good to excellent. Having said that, I do not have an open bottle of…

In my book, this is now a golden oldie. I have had it in my collection for a while, but only the one bottle so I have not yet tried it. Thanks to social media I found someone offering up samples (in one…

I tried this malt years ago for the first time during a whisky dinner in The Hielander, the famous Scottish restaurant in Alkmaar, Holland, with the indomitable Wullie Macmorland behind the stove. I was…