Scotch Whisky reviews

Nose: mild and malty. A little coconut, and something vaguely pungent. A few drops of water are needed to open this up, revealing some creamy vanilla and sweet pineapple. Taste: medium with some light…

This is a late 2020 bottling of the flagship, age-stated malt from the only (for now) distillery on the Isle of Arran. I have to note that it is distinctly darker than the last bottle I bought (with the…

On 13th December 2020 I took part in the Online Christmas Tasting by the Dutch Connection, under the guidance of Michiel Wigman and my Catawiki co-worker Jeroen Koetsier. This Longmorn was one of the…

This Longmorn was bottled last year by Hart Brothers. It’s a young malt, at cask strength, that was finished on a Marsala wine cask.The nose is pretty shy. It takes a while before it offers some straw…

Only just a few weeks ago I tried the first batch of this Chaos, a malt from Caol Ila composed from two PX hogshead that were put to sleep in 2010 and a refill hogshead from 2009. For this second batch…

Name-wise this is very apt considering what North Star Spirits already bottled with Spica, Vega and Sirius. All of them are references to the galaxy. Chaos was, after all, what came after the Big Bang…

I have no idea what Hinata means, nor am I familiar with the bottler The Stillman’s DE. It appears to be a German company and a relative newcomer. Hinata is, according to my teenage son, an important…

We know WhiskySponge mostly from the wonderfully satrical blog in which he truly mocks everyone in the world of whisky. It comes as no surprise that the inimitable strong man behind the blog – my friend…

As the name suggests, this series from Gordon & Macphail is meant to offer the different styles of malt that can be discovered from the Promsied Land. In the glass I have a Caol Ila that matured for 13…

A young, pale Caol Ila, matured on a bourbon cask. You'll be hard pressed to go more classic. Bottled by Cadenhead in 2020 in their Original Collection. Weird that the year of distillation isn't menti…