Scotch Whisky reviews

Triple distilled dram from Springbank distillery in Campeltown. I tried to look for some info about the maturation, but it's hard to find: apparently there’s sherry casks involved (but nothing else?).…

The Italian bottler Silver Seal have bottled their very first Auchentoshan last year. It was released under the banner ‘Whisky is Art’, which explains the exuberant label. It is a single cask with a very…

Highland Laird is a fairly new series from Bartel Rawlings International, the British independent bottler with their HQ in Oxted, some 30 kilometers sout of London. To be honest, until recently I had not…

This 12 Year Old Auchentoshan was bottled by The Nectar especially for Drankenshop Broekmans. So, a Belgian bottling for a Belgian whiskyshop. I first tried it at an open bar and have to admit that I was…

The sole entry I have on my list for Lochside, is coincidentally also the highest grosing. In the two years that followed since, I have never tasted a better whisky. But as we all know, you can’t judge…

My friend Peter visited the distillery last February and was kind enough to bring me a bottle of the current cask that is available in the ‘Bottle Your Own’ program. It is quite a young Auchentoshan,…

Knowing that there are no casks from 1970 left at the distillery, this is probably the only way for me to enjoy an Auchentoshan from my year of birth. So I am going to sit down and take my time for this…