Scotch Whisky reviews

My thanks to @newreverie for the reviewed sampleNose: sweet, with gentle malt, pleasant used wood aromas, very mild peat, and well-integrated brine. The malt smells nicely of a hybrid of cereal and grass…

From Gordon&Macphail’s 1995 centennial celebrations comes our first entry for Benrinnes, a vintage release from 1978. Who on the bottling line would have thought it would take another two decades before…

MMM - short for Mark & Manny's Malts - launched their fourth and final bottling in the Animal Series. It was dubbed The Elephant because this Caol Ila truly is a mighty animal with its cask strength of…

When the Dories Well was discovered in the Speyside region, some genius said, "Hey, we should build a distillery here." Good idea. IDV bought the site in 1970 and built the distillery here in 1974.…

Another dumpy bottle from Signatory, but even older than the one I tried before. This was distilled in 1978 and has been sitting in the bottle since 1996 – that’s 20 years, meaning it has spent more time…

I found this bottle at the very cozy Whisky on a Sunday event in Ghent. I had not seen it before and hence not yet tried it. It was still a third full so I convinced the owner to sell it to me. It was…