Scotch Whisky reviews

Ian Macleod is a bottler that already started in 1933. I am sure you have heard of them. They own brands like Isle of Skye, Smokehead, As We Get It, The Six Isles, Langs. And then there is also the…

I just realized that for some reason or another I have not posted a review of this batch. When I first met @Victor we tried his bottle of this batch. I thought it was a decent or average batch, and he…

You are undoubtedly aware that Macduff market sits whisky under the name Glen Deveron, after the river of the same name. This Highland distillery, on the edge of Speyside, was founded in 1962 to meet the…

Feis Ile is the malt & music festival on Islay at the end of May, where many aficionados go to get their hands on the limited bottlings. This Cairdeas was the festival bottling from Laphroaig in 2012.…

Ha, Caol Ila, it is my favorite Islay whisky. The new Port Ellen in my book, but keep that under your hat before the prices go sky high. Coal Ila Moch is a NAS release. It is Gaelic for ‘dawn’, no more…

This was one of the first ever bottlings of Auchentoshan since the takeover by Stanley P. Morrison in 1984. It was released that year (so it is still a distillate from the Eadie Cairns era). The cream…

This single cask of Auchentoshan yielded 168 bottles. I got to know it at the Whisky Festival for Independent Bottlers in Belgium last April. Someone pointed out to me that there was a Peaty toshan to…

Most of us know Singleton of Dufftown from their 12 Year Old in the beautiful tall bottle. Apart from their 12, there is also a 15 and 18 Year Old, but now Diageo launched two NAS-releases. I suppose it…

Let us return to Douglas Laing again, but shift into higher gear with their Old Particular series. I have tried their 15 Year Old Auchentoshan 1997 before, but this single cask was bottled in January…

Wemyss Malts is currently hard at work on stomping their very own distillery out of the ground. They are active for a long time already as independent bottler though. This Caol Ila was dubbed Lemon Smoke…