Whisky Reviews
When visiting the Auchentoshan Distillery, you get the opportunity to bottle your own from two casks. Obviously I brought one of each. The youngest that you can currently try is bourbon hogshead #49 that…
By @markjedi112 years ago 0 085
In the not too distant past, I had a rather unpleasant encounter with an Auchentoshan 1984. Remember the Master of Malt debacle? Pure FWP. So I was not very keen on opening my bottle with number 2 of 209…
By @markjedi112 years ago 0 082
On Friday 14th February 2014 we visited Jan Beckers in the Douglas Laing HQ in Glasgow. We were very pleasantly surprised when halfway through our visit none other than Fred Laing himself dropped by to…
By @markjedi112 years ago 0 084
The Bottle Your Own programme from Auchentoshan currently boasts not one, but two casks. Yoav Gelbfish from Israel visited the distillery, bottled from bourbon cask 11030 and graciously offered to send…
By @markjedi112 years ago 0 189
The American Oak is the successor of the Classic, which is the entry level malt that even I am not very fond of. The big difference with the Classic is not so much the age (for there is no age statement…
By @markjedi112 years ago 0 381
Compare this review to the last I did a few weeks ago. Nose: Longrow-style peat, Longrow-style kerosene sweetness, sour caramel, light smoke.Palate: Kiwi, Longrow-style peat, toffee, brown sugar, light…
The Silveroak first appeared on the duty free market last year and is a mix of bourbon and orloroso sherry casks. Last summer, a second batch from the same stocks was bottled, making it a 22 Year Old…
By @markjedi112 years ago 0 088
When 500 bottles of the Auchentoshan 1975 appeared on the market two years ago, I even flew out to Glasgow to pick up my bottle at the distillery. The distillate from 7 May 1975 was simply marvelous…
By @markjedi112 years ago 0 092
Samples were from a friend. Comus was the son of Bacchus and Circe, from Greek mythology. Bruichladdich Octomore 4.2 Comus is reported to have 167 ppm of phenols. This review is in non-sequential form…
By @Victor12 years ago 2 188
I had once tasted the Longrow CV with rather good impressions, and when I ran into this Springbank version at a whisky shop in London’s Soho, I decided to give it a try. I was told that the Longrow CV…
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