Scotch Whisky reviews

I was a bit hesitant to try the Royal Salute 21, being wary of gimmicks and marketing led premium prices that dominate the upper end of the blends market.What I discovered was an excellent surprise!A…

My first review of a Dalwhinnie and the 15 year old expression I was after for a while. Finally managed a taste and it seems like I'll be sourcing a few more.The nose is typical Highland complexities…

Slightly disappointing nose - maybe I was expecting a lot. There is orange and burnt ginger in there with a tickle of roasted nuts but it leaves you wanting for more. The texture is like silken honey…

The nose is quite nice with strong vanilla and figs intermingled with citrusy orange. The palate offers you sweet honey and pudding and then towards the end a warm aroma of spicy burnt ginger and orange…

A relatively understated malt, this. Nice nose full of toffee, butterscotch and hints of vanilla. Some fruits in there some where. Palate was a similar undertaking though marginally inferior to the nose…

I previously reviewed the Lp1 bottling of Laphroaig - this is the 2nd Elements of Islay bottling I've picked up. Ardbeg is one of the more isolated distilleries, and was actually shut down in the 1980s…

Beautifully fragrant nose full of floral fruitiness - a satisfying sniff indeed. The palate brings you a nice hint of peaty smoke rubbed with ginger spices on a bed of lemon zest and marmalade. The…

A single malt this good? Such an absolutely complex whisky. Starts of discerningly sweet and floral and then suddenly out of no where the fragrant smoky oak hits you at the back of the throat. Such a…

My first 'mystery' single malt, which means the distillery is unknown (it's been packaged by someone else). As the name suggest it's heavily peated on the nose with all sorts of oily salts with a hint…