Scotch Whisky reviews

Time to inaugurate a new type of sample series. For those of you familiar with Nozinan Mini and Sample Series, I’ve recently received some “Mystery samples”. Discovering what they are has been quite fun…

Bottle has been open about 6 weeks. Is 2/3 full and diminishing fast! This likes a little water imo. Not too much. 1/2 a teaspoon in a 50ml pour.NoseSome sherry notes. Dried fruits, Orange flavoured…

My first bottle of Springbank 18. Bottle has been open for 2 months and I've had 5 or 6 drams from it.I've never known a whisky change so much after the bottle was opened as this one. The first dram was…

My first bottle of this a couple of years back was a bit of a let down truth be told. I was all prepped for this intense smoky, peat rich bomb and what I got was a pleasant yet slightly underwhelming…

This is part deux of my Highland Park head to head. The Viking motif has been mocked, jeered and chided, but I have to say it....the bottle actually looks pretty cool. And the combination of a quarter…

I bought a bottle of the Highland Park 12 Viking whatever when it first came to Ontario's shores, reaving, ransacking, and pillaging. I had planned on getting one of the remaining non-Viking HP12 bott…

After @thewalkingdad and I were through our bourbons on Sunday, we took a nice siesta, ate some carbs, drank plenty of water, and then moved on to scotch. Most of the scotch was provided by me, but he…

If I'm not mistaken this was one of the first Scottish malts to make a feature of finishing their whisky in wine casks; specifically, port in this instance. I'm generally not the biggest fan of finished…

This 10-year was released in 2001 and was one of the first bottlings marketed by the then new owners of Bruichladdich distillery. This of course means that the spirit used came from what was acquired…

For the fourth and final bottling in our Antarctica Series – with again a fantastic label thanks to the sharp lens of photographer Ilse Everaert – we travelled to an Orkney distillery. This sherry cask…