Scotch Whisky reviews

Colour is pretty light for what is expected to be a very dark Guyanese rum cask.Nose is very rich and sweet. Reminds of sugar cane honey from Madeira or mead.Fairly rich, and coating as it is swallowed…

Colour is a dusty rose, no doubt the Petrus cask.Nose is ... uh ... phenolic? Not mediciney, more like the smoke effect of suckling pig (in a confined room). Small undertone of very fresh grain, wheat…

Colour is very light yellow, and officially Sleeman Cream Ale coloured.Nose is hot and prickly and a touch of smoke. Medium to light bodied.Flavours are predominately charcoal and chalk dust. Very sli…

Colour is a darker bronze than our previous drams this evening, no doubt impact from the added quarter cask ageing.Nose of burnt sugar and butter. Glazed ham.Flavours are something of a let-down after…

After a quick sip of frozen Bruichladdich Botanist we moved on to the Laddie Classic NAS.Colour is 5/16ths to the right of the gin, say about a youngish rum colour.Nose is of salt air, and dank alley.…

So...it's just been awarded ?"WORLD WHISKY OF THE YEAR 2012." by the prestigious "Jim Murray's Whisky Bible.” Scoring a record-equalling 97.5 points out of 100, it is only the third time that a single…