Scotch Whisky reviews

Mannochmore is a surprisingly young distillery, founded by John Haig & Co in 1971. Until 2008 she was run by the crew of the neighbouring distillery Glenlossie. She produces primarily for blenders and…

Mark Watt recently launched his own whisky brand, the wonderfully alliterating What Whisky. The first release included, among other, this young Mannochmore, a vatting of two hogsheads that were finished…

This Mannochmore was bottled by Claxton’s, Which means it comes in that very typical square bottle that reminds me of perfume instead of whiskey. Nevertheless it is a single refill sherry hogshead that…

The famous La Maison du Whisky bottled a series of malts in 2018 under the resounding name Four Styles. The four whisky’s, all at drinking strength, are The Fruity (a Mannochmore 2012), The Malty (an…

This is (I think) the 4th bottle of Lagavulin 12 year old I've opened. For me the Lagavulin 12 year old is the best representation of Lagavulin in their range. The Feis Isle bottle MarkJedi sent me a…

OK, third times the charm, hopefully, for this review ... I've been dabbling in older blends of late and this is the Red counterpart to the Black from the same era I recently reviewed - it was excellent…

Found a bottle of this blended Highland malt at a local mall and bought it just to try. Turns out this scotch is French. Yeah, master blender is fourth generation Robert Fleming and it comes from the…

In 2013, Adelphi released this Tobermory from 1994, which had matured for 18 long years on a sherry butt. I feel the ABV is still quite high after almost two decades. But the color makes me happy up…

Cooper’s Choice – a label of the Vintage Malt Whisky Company – already released a few NAS-whiskies under the banner ‘Sherry Bomb’ and I’ve had the good fortune of trying a couple. If you like ‘deep…

This very dark Tobermory was bottled by Signatory in their famous Un-Chill Filtered series, but for Kirsch Whisky, the German importer with HQ in Syke, some 15 kilometers south of Bremen. Will you look…