Scotch Whisky reviews

Nose: light but definite smoke. Sweet, gentle sherry. Touch of mothballs. Good, not outstanding.Taste: extraordinarily light-bodied yet has a full Islay flavour. Rich peat and bonfire smokiness, followed…

Springbank 15 has been a friend of mine for a long time. A whisky I keep coming back to again and again. And there is a simpel reason: it is a beautiful and very balanced whisky!Nose: Full, rich sherry…

Those of you who have been around as long as I have or longer are probably familiar with my appreciation for Bladnoch distillery. This began in late 2011. I was less than a year into my whisky journey…

Ralfy stated that Aberlour is better when it's younger. After a taste of this, the 10 and 12 yo, I'm starting to believe that. The order in scoring is the same in my book.Batch 47 of the A'Bunadh series…

Well, it's been a while since I've reviewed anything (life gets in the way of whisky, unfortunately) so let's do a fairly straightforward, easy-to-find scotch: Black Bottle. Note that last year I revi…

Back in June (2015) I had the pleasure of visiting the Balvenie distillery, during this visit and tour I had the extreme pleasure of sampling a single cask 41 yo Balvenie, this was the sample given to…