Scotch Whisky reviews

Another very young malt from Tobermory, only 8 years on a sherry cask, with a devilishly high ABV. But in this case it’s the unpeated malt from the distillery, so no Ledaig this time around. Almost 70%…

This 17 years old Ledaig has an ABV of 65.8%... excuse me? One can only conclude that the spirit went into the cask at a much higher ABV than the industry standard of 63.5%, no? Just to be sure, I’ll…

This 18 years old Tobermory on sherry casks appeared in 2015 for the first time. I felt it was somewhat ‘schizophrenic’. I presume that this third batch, from 2016, will have the same split personality…

This official 20 years old Ledaig has spent an equal amount of time on the bourbon barrels as in the bottle. It was bottled in 1999, just over twenty years ago. The sample was provided by my Dutch whisky…

In 2017 Tobermory released this official 15 years old on the market. It was bottled at cask strength and finished on Marsala wine casks. Marsala is a fortified wine produced on the Italian island of…

This official release, limited to 1710 bottles, saw the light of day in 2018. It’s a Fino sherry cask finish and was bottled at cask strength.Nice, layered nose on red fruit, dried figs, mildly burnt…

Tempranillo is one of the best native Spanish grape varieties and therefor the backbone of many Spanish wines, in particular Rijo, Ribere del Duero and Toro. Murry McDavid – a bottler that used to be…

Casqueteers is a brotherhood of whisky lovers that purchase a cask every now and then in which you can buy a part (I have quite a few myself and am patiently awaiting bottling). The recently bottled a…

When you taste Tobermory from an independent bottler, chances are that it’s actually their peated version. The Single Cask, however, immediately makes that clear by putting Ledaig clearly on the label…

Tobermory was closed for a while for renovation, but now they are back in full operation. And they immediately launched a gin, who say that coming? But I’ll stick to the whisky, in this case a 20 years…