Scotch Whisky reviews

This is another gem that importer The Nectar had bottled for their 15th anniversary. A 30-year-old Islay whisky from Phil and Simon Thompson – the boys behind Dornoch Distillery and the kids from the…

Aha! A new release of Nc'nean. This time Anabel and her team opted for a slightly different composition than for their regular batches, namely 61% STR Red Wine Casks and 39% Ex-Bourbon casks. It is also…

Gosh, yes, since I just opened a bottle of batch 8, I thought it would be nice to immediately put batch 9 next to it. Same composition as always (65% STR red wine barrels and 35% ex-bourbon casks) and…

Although I have a dram every single day, it's still hard to keep up with the pace of releases. At Nc'nean they are already at batch 15 or something, while today I open my bottle of Batch 8 for the first…

Thought I'd better try and review at least a few of the many samples I have knocking about so here's one. Kingsbarns Balcomie, "matured exclusively in American oak butts that previously held Oloroso…

Thought I'd better try and review at least a few of the many samples I have knocking about so here's one. Kingsbarns Balcomie, "matured exclusively in American oak butts that previously held Oloroso…

An OB 10 year old from Laphroaig finished in 'sherry oak'. I think it is also not chill-filtered and without e150a - a cause for celebration, some might say. I'll admit to being more in the Ardbeg camp…

I've always been a bit of a Ledaig fan boy and have usually loved what I've had, especially the Amontillado cask one ... wowzers! The 18 was OK but I think bourbon (or a certain type of sherry ;) gen…

Kudos to Belgian bottler Klubb23 who took the initiative to convince Wolfburn to release a bottling in favor of humanitarian actions for Ukraine. And although Wolfburn opened up the initiative further…

Wolfburn's first casks were filled for maturation in January 2013 and the first Manager's Cask followed not much later. This is one of Wolfburn's oldest sherry butts on which oloroso sherry had previo…