Scotch Whisky reviews

Today I feel to treat myself with something is right down my alley. Ardbeg is one of my favorite distillery but I neglect it recently. So I poured myself a dram of Perpetuum from a bottle that have been…

This was left over from my birthday party back in May by my good friend Igor Kossov. It was distilled Feb 21 1994 and put into a 2nd fill bourbon hogshead; 20 years later it filled 189 bottles.The colour…

Kirsch Whisky Import – a German independent bottler – selected thsi sherry butt from the Signatory warehouse. No less than 676 bottles were drawn from it. The contents: a Clynelish of 18 years old from…

The Vintage Collection by Signatory is somewhat lesser known, but does not contain any lesser malts. Take this Clynelish 1998, for example, bottled at drinking strength in 2016. Two hogsheads were mar…

Clynelish 1997... that in itself already sounds magical to my ears. I have been fortunate enough to have tried many Clynelish of that vintage and so far it has always been a party. The expectations for…

Seven years…that is how long it has been since I last tried the standard bottling of Clynelish. And since I have three sparring partners – all of them from Signatory by the way – I felt it was a good…

Believe it or not, this is the very first time that I taste a Kininvie single malt! I tried it first at the Antwerp Whisky & Spirits Festival and took home a sample. I was really pleasantly surprised …

The first thing you notice is the wonderfully shaped bottle which seems to have been taken from the set dressing of the famous Downton Abbey series. Very Art Deco, if you ask me. But let me add immedi…

This Distillery Edition is – contrary to what the name suggests – available in stores. It is bottled at 51%, which I find to be good news. In my book, Glenfiddich at drinking strength is usually a bit…

This NAS release by Glenfiddich – still one of the world’s bestselling malts – was released with the explanation that it was inspired on the so-called Straigth Malt from 1963. Let us not forget that the…