Scotch Whisky reviews

This Bunnahabhain is a brand new bottling from A.D. Rattray, bottled on 5 May of this year. I encountered it at the Whiskyfestival for Independent Bottlers in Belgium and of May 2015. It was a sherry…

This whisky is around 16 years of age and clearly matured on a bourbon cask (if you judge by the color). Since the Wemyss team dubbed this one ‘A Peaty Punch!’ (including the exclamation point), I pre…

Wemyss recently opened their own distillery (Kingsbarns), but is mostly known as independent bottler in which the emphasis on the labels is not so much on the distillery as it is on the whisky in the…

Independent Bottler Wemyss has already bottled more than 20 casks of Bunnahabhain. This week I will put no less than 5 of these in a row, starting with this bottling for Belgium selected by The Nectar…

The youngest Bunna release from the German Malts of Scotland was taken from a sherry butt. Judging by the color, it was quite an active cask. Because it is so young – only 14 years old – the cask yielded…

If the tasting panel of Wemyss, led by Charles McClean, comes up with a title like 'Martime Embrace', you can rest assured it will be a warm malt with loads of coastal elements, right? This Bunna is very…