Scotch Whisky reviews

Just over ten years ago James MacTaggart became the Master Distiller at Arran distillery and, in my humble opinion, has produced some very good whisky in that time. This whisky comes from first-fill…

We know Adelphi not only as the independent bottler, but also as the people behind the Ardnamurchan Distillery. As bottlers, they have almost every distillery on the market, always in single cask, wit…

The Bowmore Vinter’s Trilogy is – as the name suggest – a trilogy of Bowmore with a link to wine. The three releases are the Bowmore 18 Manzanilla cask (sitting in front of me right now), the Bowmore 26…

Feis Ile bottlings are no longer the exclusivity of Islay producers. Quite a few bottlers jump on the bandwagon with great eagerness. This Bowmore from 1999 was released for Feis Ile 2016 in Douglas…

Max Righi – whom I’ve had the pleasure of meeting a few times – is de man behind the Italian bottler Silver Seal. He is considered to be the successor of Sesante. Those are big shoes to fill! But he does…

Commitment to Malt is a Dutch whisky society founded by three franchise holders of Gall & Gall – a well-known Dutch chain of liquor stores. They have around 800 members, so it does not come as a surprise…

Ah… Feis Ile, the Music & Malt Festival on Islay… a dream for collectors, for every distillery obviously has a special bottling for this occasion. In 2018 Bowmore launched this 15 years old malt on first…

I was privileged to try this tonight. I’ve been looking at this mystery sample from @OdysseusUnbound for a while since he dropped it off in our last swap. Instead of adding it to the 80 samples in a…

Mortlach is one of those Diageo stepchild distilleries that was used mainly as blend fodder, for years it had no regular output under its name save one lonely 16 year old Flora & Fauna release. It gained…

WhiskyClub.co from Taiwan has, in collaboration with the Kuva Spirits Collection, bottled a cask of Glenrothes 1997. No less than 300 bottles from this first fill sherry but were bottled, but… in three…