Scotch Whisky reviews

This 12 Year Old Cask Strength appeared in 2016 and seems to be the last of its kind. I did not see such a release in 2017 (nor in 2018, but the year is only halfway after all). Looks like this Batch 6…

At the end of 2017, this small batch bottling by Arran appeared on the Belgian market, 900 bottles strong. It contains whisky distilled in 2007 and after maturation on bourbon casks got a finish on rum…

We already know that the boys and girls of the club The Finest Notes have good taste. For their 10th anniversary they bottled a great Glen Keith. But how time flies: that was 5 years ago already. To…

Miltonduff sells most of its production to the blenders. Ballantine’s is their biggest client, followed closely by Teacher’s and Old Smuggler. And the house blends of Chivas Regal, of course. But the…

Duncan Taylor has a series called ‘The Octave’, in which whisky matured in a smaller cask. After all, on octave is only 1/8th of a regular barrel. So maturation is faster as there is more contact with…

I am 100% a debater. This hobby has had a great influence on my approach to life. For instance, it helped me to thrash the former and current Finance Ministers of Canada in a three way debate in the…

The third and final (for now) club bottling of McShelfie (a Belgian whiskyclub) is this Tomintoul from 2006, matured on a combination of refill hogsheads and refill oloroso hogsheads. I do not have a…

The second club bottling of the Belgian club McShelfie is a young Islay. I heard through the grapevine that it is Caol Ila, my favourite Islay whisky! This is my 99th encounter. And young Caol Ila can…

McShelfie is a whisky club from Hamme (Belgium), founded in 2014 by three friends: Bram, Hendrik and Jan. And as clubs are wont to do, they also have a club bottling. Three in fact and I have the priv…

The interwebz is a wonderful place. Hang out in enough whisky-themed places (Connosr, Instagram, Facebook) and you start to develop a nice little network. Thus far, I feel like I’ve received far more…