Scotch Whisky reviews

Ooh, the boys and girls of the Belgian whisky club BYOB-C, ‘biopsy’ for short, have released another Mobsters on Mopeds, this time with a Flandria motobike on the label. It’s their 9th release already…

Let me just repeat that the Girvan grain distillery is owned by William Grant & Sons, the family behind Glenfiddich, Balvenie & Kininvie. Did you know that the site in South Ayrshire was a weapons fac…

Ah, another one of those old grains from Invergordon, this time from 1972 and bottled by Crom in 2015. Nowhere to be found nowadays, I’m afraid. My buddy Manny provided me with a sample.It comes very…

I already tried this last summer, but did not make any notes. I would like to correct that mistake now, because this is a beautiful grain. Distilled in the year old birth of Dearly Beloved, so it must…

A young grain bottled in the ‘Rare Old Grain’ series. Where's the logic in that? It is a sister cask from the Invergordon 2009 from the same bottler in their Octave series. This one was also bottled for…

‘Waffles and Maple Syrup’. That’s the name Charles McLean and the tasting panel gave this 30 years old grain from Invergordon. That leaves little to the imagination, obviously. Let’s see if I agree.Yup…

Another golden oldie grain! Distilled in 1989 and bottled in 2008 by Blackadder, the bottler that adds some cask residue in its famous Raw Cask series. I must confess that I do not have a lot of exper…

Strathclyde was founded in 1927 along the River Clyde in Glasgow. With no less than seven column stills they produce around 40,000,000 litres per annum. Today I will try a 30 years old that has matured…

Invergordon is a young distillery, built in 1959. Since 1993 she is part of Whyte & Mackay that we know primarily from Dalmore, Isle of Jura and Fettercairn distilleries. Today I will try a very young…

Cameronbridge was founded in 1824 by John Haig, the whisky baron behind the blend of the same name. His cousin, Robert Stein, was the inventor of the column still. It thus comes as no surprise that…