Scotch Whisky reviews

A Secret Islay from 1989... that's over 30 years old, mind you! And here, too, this is not this bottler’s first rodeo. I'm very late with my tasting notes – the bottle hasn't been available anywhere for…

We previously tasted some Secret Speyside from The Whisky Jury, but fortunately Joeri makes it a bit easy for us to find out which distillery made this liquid. You only have to look at the label and…

'Isn't Joeri starting to exaggerate a bit now?', was my first thought when I read that he was going to bring another Ben Nevis to the market. After all, it's already his 6th if I'm not mistaken. Anyway…

@Talexander has been known to frequent an auction or two. In January I was visiting him to conduct some whisky business, and he gifted me a number of miniatures he had procured in auctions in the past…

Written Tuesday Nov. 15, 2022We had our first snowfall today. I’m not complaining. Other cities in Canada have already been hit with Winter conditions for weeks. As recently as last week we had temp…

This is my 3rd bottle of Laphroaig 10CS. The first 2 were very good, and now that the temps have dropped off a cliff, it's time to break out the peat! This is batch 13, bottled in Jan 2021 at 57.9% ABV…

This is a bottle from March 21. I think it's been open almost a year (if not longer) and review is with a few drops of water to a 30ml pour.Nose - where to begin ... Tyres, twiggy peat, mild antiseptic…

Aberlour A’Bunadh is one of the whiskies that drew me to this hobby in 2011, and which I continue to enjoy to this day. It is one of the sherry bombs that has endured throughout my interest in spirits…

Aberlour A’Bunadh was the first malt that won me over when I started my whisky journey in 2011. My youthful enthusiasm led me to load up on bottles, and when batch numbers exceeded my age I decided to…

I opened this in Spring and, will have to admit, fell in love straight away. Only my second ever Mortlach (after my darling F&F 16) but I'm a sucker for big, bold, old-skool and, yes, somewhat meaty…