Scotch Whisky reviews

Even though this Highland Park is only 8 years old, in terms of distillation year it’s probably the oldest I have tried so far. It’s an official release from the 1970s with screwcap. It’s was the opening…

High Parkland? Hahahaha, that is probably the silliest reference I have ever seen to Highland Park. Dramfool – what’s in the name? – leaves nothing to the imagination on the label by depicting a Viking…

Highland Park releases single casks with frightening regularity for an airport, city, club or even private person. Today I will try a refill butt from 2004, bottled for the famous Vinothek Massen from…

XOP is short for Xtra Old Particular, a series of single cask bottlings by Douglas Laing, containing respectably aged single cask whisky in their natural form and at cask strength. Today I will try a…

I’m quite naughty by revealing Clynelish immediately, for this is actually an ‘undisclosed’ malt. But when you label your release Unleash the Cline, well. I take full responsibility. This is the eight…

The Single Malts of Scotland is a label from Sukhinder Singh, owner of the famous The Whisky Exchange. In 2007 – admittedly, a while ago – he bottled this Clynelish 1996. You can hardly go wrong with…

Are you ready for a legendary bottling? A future classic? Samaroli is already legendary, of course, but the 340 bottles of this special release ‘from Silvano’s collection’ which appeared two years ago…

It pays too once in a while clean out your sample cabinet. All the way in the back I found this sample of Clynelish 1996 that was bottled by WIN in 2013. Apparently it is a re-racked Sherry cask. At cask…

The oldest bottler in Scotland is Gordon & Macphail. In 2020 they celebrated their 125th anniversary. The Connoisseurs Choice is one of their oldest and most popular ranges and has undergone quite a few…

It is well known that the panel comes up with very strange names for their single cask releases. But for this 11 years old Mannochmore from 2003 they made me raise my eyebrows. Ghymkhanas & Gym Class?…