Scotch Whisky reviews

I tried the official St Magdalene 1994 release from Diageo’s Rare Malts series. This 23 year old expression has become very scarce and as such, very expensive as well (about 350 EUR). The 19 year old…

The St Magdalene distillery from the Lowlands was closed in 1983. This is a 23 year old expression, distilled in 1982 and bottled in 2006 in the so-called Old Malt Cask series by the Glasgow based ind…

Blackadder is an independent bottler with Swedish roots. The Raw Cask Series are bottlings at cask strength and non chill-filtered. Typical is also the fact that part of the sediment from the casks are…

Nose: obviously from a (great) sherry cask. It shows lovely shoe polish and precious wood, apples, prunes, rhubarb, apple pie… A bit of old roses and leather. Even faint smoke and gentle tarmac. Cigar…

Té Bheag (pronounced “chey vek”) is a blended scotch whisky, the source materials drawn from unnamed West Coast and Speyside distilleries, blended and bottled by Pràban na Linne of the Isle of Skye. Some…

Colour: pale gold.Nose: Smoky, sweet some tobacco and a bit of tar and rubber come in at 2nd whiff. really smoky stuff, i can think of smoked fish and Ham which you buy at delicatessen shops. fresh off…

The peated spirit was put to sleep for more than thirty years on American oak (ex-bourbon) and then transferred to a Tawny Port Pipe for a finish of 12 monhs.It’s the porto that makes the nose burst with…