Scotch Whisky reviews

The girls and boys of BYOB-C, or 'biopsy' or Bring Your Own Bottle Club, have released special twins under the name Anarchy of the Lads. One bottle contains a 10-year-old Royal Brackla on sherry, the…

This review is of a dram from my own bottle I've had open about 3 months. The cask mix of batch 19 is 70% bourbon 30% Sherry (Springbank 12 used to originally be much more sherry cask forward).Nose (neat…

Thanks to @Timp I have a 50ml sample of batch 12 of what is probably my favourite 'bang for you buck' whisky Springbank 12 cask strength.Nose (neat) immediate peat on the nose. Some Springbank funk (hard…

Mark and Manny will also be bottling 4 beautiful single casks for a completely new series in 2022: The Mythical Series! This year, the artworks for the labels are created by the unparalleled Ansgar…

My favourite distillery on Islay is celebrating its 175th anniversary in style, with a 24-year-old release at cask strength. The 3,000 available bottles were sold out in the blink of an eye and I unfo…

At the end of last year, Bowmore entered into a partnership with Aston Martin, the well-known British car brand. The series consists of a 10-year-old in a green box, a 15-year-old in a white box and an…

It is certainly not the first time that the German The Whisky Agency joins forces with the Japanese Three Rivers. This time both parties opted for a 28-year-old Isle of Jura from 1992. What a nice label…

This 13-year-old Isle of Jura from 2006 was given the name Two-One-Two, which refers to small community on the island, which at the time of bottling consisted of 212 people. It matured in ex-bourbon…

No, it's not a typo. This Inchgower was indeed distilled in 1959 and bottled after 17 years. That was in 1977, an important year for Star Wars fans, but this aside. In the meantime, the malt has been in…

Buds & Barrels has its very first real own release! Congratulations Tom. It was a young Inchgower that matured on a PX Quarter Cask, which immediately explains the inviting color. 'The Sticky Label' is…