Scotch Whisky reviews

This is another Balvenie mini, this time the 15 Year Old Single Barrel. Unfortunately, the tube offers no cask info whatsoever. It is non-chill-filtered and (presumably) cask strength at 50.4%.The colour…

The colour is a deep caramel. Like many a Balvenie, the immediate hit on the nose is honey and toffee, with custard, baked apple, cinnamon and clove. Blood orange. Definite sherry note. Quite nutty. With…

I'd heard some really good things about Deanston over the last couple of years, and saw the nice, big, fat ABV of this Signatory bottling and decided to give this a shot. I've yet to have a disappointing…

For our third release in the Canvas Series, with again a beautiful artwork by Monique Tromp on the label, we selected a lesser known malt. This Fettercairn was put to sleep in 2008 in a bourbon hogshead…

For their 10th anniversary the German bottler Liquid Treasures released this 10 years old Fettercain. Love the label! The malt matured on a rum cask by the way.The rum dominates the nose of this malt…

A 28 years old Fettercairn! This was distilled in the year yours truly became of age. I had actually tried this before in the 2018 edition of the Proefolympics (Dutch tasting competition), thinking it…

Druma Mor is a Belgian bottler. Last year they released this 11 year old Fettercairn. It’s a distillery that doesn’t appear on my scope often, to be honest. However, I was quite impressed with this malt…

I have a bit of a love hate relationship with Sherry cask matured whiskies. When the Sherry cask influence is overdone (which it frequently is) I'm not a fan. The natural character of the spirit just…

Bowmore seems to be the overlooked middle child of Islay. A lot of people hate them, seemingly for no reason. I get that most of their core expressions are bottled at a low abv. While that’s disappoin…

Foamy, my good friend Bart A, recently put this sample in my hands. It’s an Ardmore that was bottled some 5 years ago on Hunter Laing’s Old Malt Cask series.Oh, what a delicious, bright and fruity nose…