Scotch Whisky reviews

This interesting bottling features malt distilled in 2004, matured in a combination of bourbon barrels and sherry casks (for I think five years?), then finished for 18 months in Sassicaia wine casks from…

sample from a friendI remember really adoring this a year or two ago when I sampled it from a friend's bottle. Let's see how it we're viewing it now. Nose: Very curious and far darker than my recollec…

It's the final weekend of my home vacation, so I thought I'd go through some samples and do some comparisons. First off, we have two Benromachs. This distillery (founded in 1898) is currently owned by…

It's been a long week, in fact it's been a long month, with Whisky Live Sydney done and dusted and Whisky Live Melbourne just a week away, a fresh batch of That Boutiquey Whisky Company imported by the…

sample from a friendNose: Ah, vibrant and very lively. An acoustic guitar solo (these things happen, right?) at a show on the coast. Baseline of the coastal salt, pebbles, stony sand, and seaweedy peat…

sample from a friendNose: Chalky vanilla malt atop a gentle peat, really rather coastal on pebbles. Some of the lemon and freshly shaved ginger. Lightly acrid gasoline at the pump, cold pressed nut and…

Septendecim is seventeen in Latin. Finished in Ex-bourbon casks, a robust, yet suddenly mellow whisky. Marketing text says, made like a Speyside whisky from the past.Well, if that's Speyside's past, I…

Introduced a few years ago as a replacement for the legendary Airigh Nam Beist. It's got big shoes to fill so let's see how it does.Tasted with water and allowed to open up for a few minutes.Nose: Do I…