Scotch Whisky reviews

Despite the name, this is not what I would call a "sherry bomb" at least not like a Macallan Cask Strength or Aberlour A'bunadah. This Ben Nevis is lighter in color and mouthfeel; not as "heavy".On the…

I'm Canadian. That means I have a complicated relationship with geese. As the Canadian legend goes, all the anger and hatred was sucked out of the Canadian populace and channelled into its geese in a…

The Kylver Series releases are all named after the so-called Kylver Stone, a tombstone on Gotland from the 5th Century. This 5th expression, bottled in 2019, is a vatting of first fill bourbon and PX…

In February 2019 I tried this whisky before it could be named as such. The cask was filled in November 2017, to it would take at least until November 2020 before it was worthy of the name. Tom Haseldo…

The first official release from the Torabhaig distillery, founded on Skye in 2017, sold out in a flash. This despite the fact that, like many other inaugural releases we’ve seen in recent months, it is…

Prima Vinum, a Belgian whisky shop, selected a sherry butt that was put to sleep in 2007 at Douglas Laing, containing spirit from the lesser known Miltonduff distillery. They had it bottled last August…

AnCnoc’s Peaty Collection consists of releases that refer to utensils used to harvest peat: Barrow, Tushkar, Rutter, Flaughter, Cutter and Rascan, further upholstered with Peatheart and Peatlands. Today…

AnCnoc is another one of those single malts that does not appear on my scope often. This is only the tenth that I try. This 24 years old from the Knockdhu distillery was launched at drinking strength in…

If you say Whiskywarehouse, you say Eric Vermeire, the lovable importer of Gordon & Macphail, Wolfburn, Clan Denny and Murray McDavid for Belgium. In 2018 he selected this 13 years old Aultmore to be…

In an attempt to promote their distilleries, John Dewar & Sons launched the series ‘The Last Great Malts’ in 2014 with releases from Brackla, The Deveron (aka Glen Deveron, so basically from the Macduff…