Scotch Whisky reviews

Bottler Morrison & Mackay has launched a new range under ‘Regional Single Malts’. Sounds a bit much like Douglas Laing’s ‘Remarkable Regional Malts’, I say. Anyway. Their Islay malt is named The Big…

Aceo Ltd is the company that took over Murray McDavid from Mark Reynier at the moment the Bruichladdich Distillery was sold off. They now release this 5 Year Old malt that listens to the name Smoky Scot…

I found an old sample from Malts of Scotland in the back of my sample cabinet. After removing the dust and spider web, I saw it was a 13 Year Old Laffie, bottled in 2010 by the German bottler. Well, as…

Laphroaig puts out the so-called Cairdeas for Feis Ile since 2008. Cairdeas means friendship. I’ve tried them all bar the ones from 2017 and 2019 (if anyone has a sample for sale, get in touch!). Last…

The Maltman is a label from the Meadowside Blending Company, run by Donald Hart (which we also know from the Hart Brothers releases) and son Andrew Hart. This Port Charlotte, matured on an oloroso…

The Heretic was the Feis Ile 2018 release from Port Charlotte (from the Bruichladdich Distillery, of course) and is, according to the label ‘the last of the first’, meaning the last casks of the first…

I’m currently living without my wife and children. Not voluntarily, but by agreement. We recently went to Calgary to celebrate the 40th year of her family coming to Canada and met with some of the…

Caperdonich distillery is located at the northern end of Moraytown Village in Rothes and was founded in 1897 as “Glen Grant #2” by J. & J. Grant, the same people that had also built Glen Grant distillery…

In 2018 Lagavulin launched for the third festival an a row and 18 Year Old (for Feis Ile 2019 it was a 19 years old and I presume that trend will continue). I had to admit that those Feis Ile release,…

The Peat Faerie is a blended malt from the famous Scotch Malt Whisky Society. This 7 years old is the fourth batch and was discovered by their tasting panel during the concoction of the previous batch…