Scotch Whisky reviews

Batch #33. Drunk with water, with a whisky to water ratio between 2:1 and 1:1 (closer to 1:1). The trick to know when I've arrived at the right dilution is when I can see the sherry cask when nosing the…

Nose: Sugar plums Cotton Candy , Rich Fruit Taste: Soft , Juicy oak , I can taste a beautiful marriage between Longmorn & Clynelish, Sweet gingersnaps , Finish: Oak , Spice , nutmeg , cinnimon , pepper…

It took some doing to get a sample of the Auchentoshan 1957 (according to my ‘supplier’ it had the hallmarks of a ‘military operation’), but here it is in front of me at last. It is the 50 Year Old from…

Malts of Scotland recently opened a visitor center in Paderborn (Germany), where you will also find the warehouses in which several of Thomas Ewers’ casks are maturing. Some of these were bottled in a…

Gordon & Macphail releases whiskies under their Secret Stills label, of which the distilleries are… err… secret. But this Lowland is clearly Auchentoshan, for the back label reveals that it is a triple…

In April 2011 I already enjoyed a 31 Year Old Auchentoshan from the Distillery Archive. It was bourbon hogshead 803. Thanks to a collector in Germany, I was able to get my hands on a sample from a sister…

This Auchentoshan was bottled by Indie James MacArthur, without chill filtration or coloring. It is a single cask (number 113) at cask strength.While Auchentoshan is instantly recognizable on the nose…