Scotch Whisky reviews

If all goes well, we’ll have some true single malt from Ardnamurchan next year. After all, this distillery in the Highlands, owned by Adelphi, put the first spirit in cask at the end of 2014. This second…

It is going to be a while before we get a single malt from this Highland distillery, but like many new players, they also released some of their spirit. On the one hand it enables us to sample something…

My deep thanks I give to @bwmccoy for the reviewed sample. SMWS 10.118 was matured for 9 years in a bourbon hogshead, followed by 1 year in a "1st fill" Port barrique. Distillation date: 1 December 2006…

Macduff, founded in 1962, is one of Scotland’s youngest distilleries. It was built specifically to provide malt for the famous blend William Lawson’s. But the malt is also released as a single. For the…

Duncan Taylor has a series called ‘The Octave’, in which the whisky matures (or is finished) in smaller casks. Maturation is faster as there is more contact between the spirit and the wood. Hence the…

After the success of the 8-part series Lads of Lobland, the Belgian Bring Your Own Bottle Club – ‘biopsy’ for short – started a new series under the banner ‘Mobsters on Mopeds’. I just love that label…

I discovered this Glen Keith at the whiskyfestival Sprits in the Sky in November 2018. It was however bottled for the Whisky Fair in Germany. Apparently a few bottles found their way to my neck of the…

The Italian/Scottish duo that runs the independent bottler Valinch & Mallet are very picky about the individual casks they select for bottling. Only when both are absolutely convinced, will they put it…

Passion for Whisky is a well-known Dutch liquor store. Crazy Bert works with them for the first time with this very limited (only 42 bottles) Glen Keith. It cost around 150 EUR but – as is usually the…

This is the 8th and final release in the Lads of Lobland series by the Belgian Bring Your Own Bottle Club – or BYOB-C (‘biopsy’). It was bottled in collaboration with Liquid Art. They chose a Speysider…