Scotch Whisky reviews

Let me end this flight of Jura with a bottling from Signatory’s Cask Strength Collection. This one was bottled by The Nectar from Belgium. It was distilled on 17 December 1989 and bottled on 26 September…

A few weeks ago I received a box with some Bowmore chocolates, which included a miniature of the Bowmore Small Batch. I had tried it before at a whisky festival and again when trying the chocolate, but…

The Bowmore 100 Degrees was launched for the duty free range, bottled at 57,1% ABV. The strength would have to do with the testing of the alcohol percentage by sailors with gunpowder, back in the old…

Mortlach is referred to by some as a "Beefy Malt". The person who sparked my interest in Scotch had gifted me a bottle of Diageo's Rare Malts series. That's a 22 year old distilled in 1972 clocking in…

The Bonding Dram has recently purchased some casks (split with colleagues). This young Bunnahabhain matured on a sherry cask and was bottled at cask strength by Signatory Vintage. That means it comes in…

The Isle of Jura Origin is the reincarnation of their standard 10 Year Old. But you know as well as I that batches can vary significantly and the last time I tried this one was in 2010. Seeing that I…

If ever there was a perfect summer scotch then this is surely it. 15 Years in ex-bourbon caks with another 3 in ex-Oloroso sherry make this a perfectly balanced dram in my opinion.It's 'big', but not in…

I have absolutely no idea what Feith A' Chaorainn means, but according to Google it stands for 'the land around the rowan'. That does not help me much. So let me simply get started on this Isle of Jura…

This year, on 28 and 29 May, Jura Tastival 2014 will take place. In their own words, this is a 'whisky tasting revolution'. Especially for the festival a whisky was bottled under the name Tastival. Along…

This bottle has been open a couple of years. According to some professional writers this malt/brand has taken a bit of nose dive in quality recently. I hope not as this bottle is running low! A very…