Scotch Whisky reviews

Nose: Quite a nice smoky nose, with apples, honey and some smoke, a touch of vanilla as well, warming spices with the baked refd apples, and a zingy lemon touch as well. Palate: Creamy smoke if you can…

Nose: the nose is heavier, darker , more sherried and brooding. with dark chocolate, honey and cocoa, more of the apple pie, quite rich, with spices, black tea leaves, tobacco and even a smoky touch and…

Nose: quite different with a lot of sherry influence, apple pie, glazed with burnt sugar, dried fruit, cinnamon, clove and a touch of vanilla. deep dark honey, sultana and spice. you can feel some ex…

A 33 years old Teaninch? Here’s something you don’t see every day. The lion’s share of production goes into Johnnie Walker (mostly Red Label) and thus this malt can hardly be found as a single malt,…

While this Highland distillery celebrated its 200th anniversary last year, and opened a whole new stillhouse this year, Teaninich is still largely unknown. This has everything to do that this is one of…

The sample for this review was graciously provided by @NozinanCaol Ila Cask Strength 10 Year Old 60.5% ABVDistilled 2004/Bottled 2015Opened May 21/2017, sample bottled Nov 15/2017, bottle 2/3 full when…

Millburn distillery was established in Inverness in 1807, although it is unclear when whisky was distilled there for the first time – after all, this was sixteen years before the passage of the Excise…

This bottle was a gift from my real estate agent after we bought our house. She enjoys bourbon mostly and during the house hunting process we often discussed whisky and I told her she needed to try…

Do you remember the Vega 23 Year Old 1993? I thought that was great, but now a second Vega was released in which all components – all of them Speyside malts – have matured for 40 years! They were all…

North Star Spirits, who have only been active since 2016, are quickly building up an ironclad reputation. Next to quite a few fantastic single casks bottlings (already 5 series so far) of both single…