Scotch Whisky reviews

On Tuesday, September 20, 2022, Manny, Dearly Beloved and I were visiting Clynelish. For me, this had to be the highlight of the trip. And fortunately it was. Although the first half hour of the tour had…

Les Grand Alambics is a whisky shop in Chambéry, France (about 40km north of Grenoble and halfway between Lyon and the Swiss border). With the regularity of the clock they bottle something exclusively…

My favorite vintage for Clynelish is without a doubt 1997, but this is close enough. Bottled in that beautiful but clumsy decanter by Signatory in 2016, we are talking about a malt that matured for 20…

Ah, look, a somewhat older bottling of The Nectar, from the series where they made anagrams of or puns on the name of the distillery. This is their Shiny Cell, a Clynelish from 1995, bottled in 2008. I…

Although it is not explicitly mentioned on the label, the drawing of the distillery (the old Brora) is enough to realize that we are talking about a Clynelish here. It concerns a distillate from 2010…

Our good friends at Liquid Art have found another single cask that they considered bottle-worthy. And it must be, for this is a Linkwood from 2008 that was allowed to spend it’s hibernation on a bourbon…

Berry Brothers & Rudd is of course very well known, so no intro needed. For years, the royal supplier with headquarters in London, they of course also bottle whisky themselves. This young Linkwood was…

Two years ago, Signatory Vintage bottled this young Linkwood in the so-called Small Batch series for the German Kirsch Import. It is a vatting of three barrels that together yielded just under 1,500…

Oooh, this is a golden oldie, right? Distilled in 1973 (the year of birth of Dearly Beloved, the sweetest woman of Gentbrugge and surroundings) and bottled after five years, so somewhere in 1978 or 1979…

Matured on refill American oak and virgin oak.N: Immediately quite peaty and smoky on the nose with fish oil, roasted pine nuts, smoldering hearth and even goat stable. In fact, I also get cauliflower…