Scotch Whisky reviews

Douglas of Drumlanrig is a series by Langside Distillers, who are in turn linked to Douglas Laing. This 15 Year Old Auchentoshan was launched last year. It is a refill hogshead which partially explains…

The Laffie Select jumps on the bandwagon of the NAS hype. The name Select points to the selection of casks that was used for the composition of this new release, being oloroso sherry butts, PX seasoned…

This is not the first Glenlossie bottled by The Whisky Mercenary. Two years ago he bottled another Glenlossie 1992 which was quite nice indeed. This bottling, only 48 bottles strong, was released for…

The Ultimate is a label of the Dutch bottler Van Wees. I tried several of their releases already (including two Auchentoshan) and will do so now again. This Auchentoshan is 11 years old, was distilled…

Whisky Troef is a Belgian malt whisky club. For their most recent club bottling they asked Jürgen Vromans – aka The Whisky Mercenary – to select a cask. He offered them a lesser known malt: Ben Nevis.…

Auchentoshan has another affaire with red wine. It certainly is not the first time. Auchentoshan is one of the few distilleries that is happily married to red wine, it must be said. The delicate nature…