Scotch Whisky reviews

Coastal Boy? Never heard of it. And yet this German independent bottler – Mario Walter – has been active for a while. Most of his 'Eigenabfüllungen' are bottles of 350ml or 500ml, including this special…

The Meadowside Blending Company bottles both single malt and single grain. The former under the label The Maltman and the latter under – you guessed it – the label The Grainman. This Maltman bottling was…

Elixir Distillers is the name of the company under which Sukhinder Singh of The Whisky Exchange itself bottles malts. Last year this 'A Speyside Distillery' appeared on the market, in which the origin…

A blend of one of Scotland's oldest bottlers: Cadenhead. All components of this blend are a) Scottish and b) at least 20 years old and c) sherry matured. The nose is difficult, which means that I am not…

Wilson & Morgan, the bottler with Italian roots, married no less than 6 sherry casks together for this Highland Heart, which was apparently enough to bring just over 4,000 bottles to the market. That's…

From this Clan Denny bottling we only know that it is a Speyside single malt of barely three years old, which got a finish on bourbon barrels. Does that mean that this malt then started its life on a…

I confess, until recently I had never heard of this. And even now I don't manage to find much more information about it, but apparently this Noble Fleming was compiled and bottled in 2002 by Pràban na…

King Cask is a new Dutch bottler – started in 2020 – and this MacRothes is, as the name suggests, a blended malt consisting of Macallan and Glenrothes. I got a sample from my good friend Gunther in my…

This is from a sample courtesy of @Wierdo (cheers again, mate!) and will be my first try of any Brackla. Bottled from a single hogshead by Infrequent Flyers, and is also my first sample from them too…

Nose: Balsa wood, Demerara sugar syrup, persimmons, roasted blood oranges, and a salty beach.Flavor: Quite a syrupy body, like an old Highland Park but without the distinctive Orkney peat, wildflower…