Scotch Whisky reviews

A dual first for me. My first Royal Brackla and also my first bottle from the Infrequent Flyers range a fairly new independent bottler owned by Alistair Walker son of the famous (in whisky circles) Billy…

Thanks to @RianC for this sample of a 1980s Johnnie Walker Black Label.NoseAn interesting nose on this. Breakfast cereal, hint of smoke, white pepper and some wood sourness. It may be my imagination but…

This Raw Cask bottling from Blackadder is already a bit older, but thanks to my buddy Manny from the Netherlands I was able to put it on the lips. It is a Clynelish distilled in 1996 and aged on a sherry…

Han Solo would say 'Didn't we just leave this party?', because the 8th release of the girls and boys of BYOB-C in the series Mobsters on Mopeds was also a Clynelish. Then it was christened ‘Unleash the…

The newest releases from The Whisky Mercenary are bottled in the so-called Draconological Series. This one has another of those funny dragon cartoons on the label and is dubbed Draco Islayensis. Who…

The newest releases from The Whisky Mercenary are bottled in the so-called Draconological Series. WTF is that? LOL. The labels show a nice cartoon of a dragon. Anyway, Jürgen has good taste, that’s for…

Firstly thanks to @Timp for providing me with a sample of this whisky. I've had a bottle of the 10 in the past and enjoyed it. So the 15 has been on my 'need to try' list for a while.NoseQuite fragrant…

Sorry, but can anyone explain to me how this can be a 16 years old Lagavulin? Even if this was distilled on the 1st of January 2005 and bottled on the 31st of 2020 – which is not the case, to be absol…

Lagavulin is sometimes described as the ‘Aristocrat of Islay’. This whisky is so popular that the distillery sometimes has to cope with stock shortages. It is, by the way, the Lagavulin Distillers Edi…

While the Distillers Editions from Diageo may vary from year to year, as far as I can ascertain Caol Ila has been part of the series many times, appearing for the first time in 2006 (so a distillate from…