Scotch Whisky reviews

This is my first Kilkerran. Usually, I am not a fan of Campbeltown whisky because I often get rotten vegetal notes on the nose and the palate. Let see if it is different.Yep. It is. This is my third dram…

The third and final bottling in the Smugglers' Series - The Exciseman – again contains peated and unpeated Arran malt, of which part matured on Madeira casks. Quite a few of the 8700 bottles were never…

The second volume of Arran’s Smugglers’ trilogy was dubbed The High Seas. Like its predecessor and it successor, it was put – or is that hidden? – in a nice packaging. Both peated and unpeated Arran were…

The Smugglers' Series of Arran consists – litteraly – of books: The Illicit Stills, The High Seas & The Exciseman. The PR-department did their best to bring homage to the distillers of an era gone by…

I attempted an abridged version of my recent blog post.I have been looking forward to this whisky since the press release last year, I almost asked a friend to bring some back from the US but then found…

Full disclosure, I only had 3 drams of this before returning it to the LCBOGlenfarclas was one of those whiskies on my “must try” list. It seems to be one of the cool kids’ darling distilleries. They’re…

I started off writing a long-winded opinion piece on how I feel about Macallan. But I chose not to. There’s no point. They’re a whisky that was once known as the Rolls Royce of whiskies. Now it’s more…

The Balvenie is a favorite distillery of mine, and of many others I know. They do have quite a few expressions in their core range, and travel range, all are of high quality, with some being plain ‘good…

This scotch will put a smile on your face if you like your peat. Deep rich smokey tones linger and stain the palate. So much has already been written and spoken of this particular Ardbeg - affordable,…

Nose: ah that's a Clynelish alright we got over here.. The waxy apples are here as well as some fresh pears, freshly cut grass, lemon zest, with hints of damp Dunnage warehouses.Palate: quite fruity from…