Scotch Whisky reviews

The Usquebaugh Society, a Dutch whiskyclub, celebrates its 25th anniversary. That has to be celebrated with a beautiful release. They chose a Glen Garioch 1990 from David Stirk of the Creative Whisky…

Here’s Ledaig from the Tobermory Distillery on the island of Mull. I haven’t tried much out of Tobermory / Ledaig, so let’s change that. We might as well get started with the introductory 10 year old,…

I’ve sampled from only a few Kilchomans over the years. In all honesty I often find Kilchoman to be of good quality, but often overpriced and rather inconsistent. It's for that reason it's easily the…

Old Pulteney distillery is located in Wick, a fishing village in the far north-east of Scotland, and was founded in 1826 by James Henderson. The part of town where the distillery is located is called…

Nose: sea air, sour cream, distant smoke, very faint echoes of the later sweeter Brora bloodline, overripe raspberry, laundry smell blowing out the drier vent, Colorado Rockies mountain air before a…

THIS is a dram worth paying for. Nose: Smells like Christmas basically, fruit cake, pine, brackish water and the outdoors generally. It's not an ATG nose but it hints at what's coming.Mouth: Surrenders…