Scotch Whisky reviews

Bell’s Original is nowadays a very popular and cheap blend. A bottle will set you back around 20 EUR. A long time ago (not in a galaxy far, far away, mind you) the Extra Special was their flagship rel…

If you are a fan of the awesome Game of Thrones series, I guess you just have to try this bottle, no? The idea and packaging look great, the timing is a bit off though. The last season of GOT aired over…

Their website proudly states ‘Scottish at heart’ and that’s nice, considering the fact that the blend is put together in… Bordeaux, France. Someone whispered in my ear that it is distilled near Leith by…

Neat at the lobby bar of Hotel Puerta América, Madrid. It pours rather pale, more than we are usually used to when it comes to whisky: clean pale wheat is the color. Aroma is intense, even very intense…

When I tried the Caol Ila 30 Year Old earlier this year – which was released in Diageo’s Special Release in 2014 – I described it as ‘perfect’ and plundered my savings account to get me a bottle. Now…

I was looking forward to tasting this Carsebridge for four reasons. First: this grain distillery from the Lowlands is no more (it was closed in 1983 and demolished in the 1990s); second: it is the very…

Talisker remains very popular. And while this one is fairly young with its 8 years on first fill bourbon hogsheads (and not cheap with a price tag of 85 EUR), I’m sure it will fly off the shelves. But…

Cladach is this year’s ‘secret bottle’, like Collectivum XXVIII was last year’s. In other words, this was revealed late in the game. Cladach means as much as ‘coastline’ and is a blended malt, composed…

Inchgower is something of an unknown, a workhorse for Diageo’s blends. You will not come across it as a single malt very often. It even makes its debut in this year’s Special Releases and what an entr…

Pittyvaich was built in 1974 to make malt for the popular Bell’s blend. The distillery was short-lived, however, closing in 1993 after just 19 years of operation. That’s less than the time this malt…