Scotch Whisky reviews

Nose: Sea air, charred oak, cayenne pepper, smoked paprika, fried pork cracklings, orange coated in dark chocolate, bitter mint, a little vanilla, cinnamon and icing, burnt marshmallows, and very lovely…

Nose: Pine, dark chocolate - with water: coriander Taste: Blue Mountain coffee, phenolic, vintage leather, quite salty, chestnuts Finish: Incredibly long, cloves, peat, pepper and anchovies

Nose: Ham, salt, marmite, furniture polish, soya sauce, leather, vanilla Taste: Sugar coated bacon chops, peppermint, oak Finish: Drying mint develops into charcoal, mint jelly

Nose: Fennell, aniseed, melon (honeydew) with water: Tar, Taste: White chocolate, salt and vinegar crisps, phenolic, kippers Finish: Bacon, peat

Sampled in a Glencairn with a teaspoon of spring water.Legs: Long and shapely, like a Moulin Rouge dancer.Nose: A strong sherry aroma with big hints of fruit, certainly sultana and maybe cooking apples…

Nose: Heather, lemon, cherry, pear, rhubard and custard sweets Taste: Fizzy leather, cox's apples, lime, cinnamon Finish: Dry

Nose: Pine, creme brulee, raisins, cinnamon, apricots, nougat Taste: Grass, pepper, apricot, burnt toast, lime, nice mix of sherry and wood Finish: Fruity then develops into oak, syllabub?

Nose: Apple, lemon, demerera sugar, with water = leather Taste: Apple, caramel, pomegranate, burnt lemon curd Finish: Medium length - figs - apple!

Macallan Cask Strength is undiluted malt aged in used sherry casks. There is no age statement on the bottle. The reviewed bottle has been open for 3 months. Colour: quite dark, from the Sherry cask aging…

Another Toshan today, this time a very limited, and very unique one. This bottling was released in 2008 , as a duty free only edition (or distillery shop exclusive) , with an outrun of 1800 bottles only…