Scotch Whisky reviews

So what was so great about the 80's then? Well, yours truly was born for a start, the music was better than you might remember, Schwarzenegger and Norris, Aliens and Predator, tube socks and sweat bands…

Classic stuff as we taste one of the best-known, best-selling single malts in the world.Glenlivet 12 displays a clean, pale golden color and a rather low-intensity aroma (even after adding a drop of…

After having entered reviews for 38-year-old Stone of Destiny, 21-yo Royal Salute and 18-yo Chivas Regal, it is high time their younger sibling were featured here: Chivas 12, one of the best-selling…

I've had this blended many times, but this review comes from one particular evening with my uncle, back in March 2015, at the terrace of a venue named Club Gourmet Callao (where they poured the dram on…

Glendronach has inspired a cult following in the last ten years or so. I've known about it for at least twenty years, but not because I'm some hipster who's "ahead of the curve" or who "knew it before…

Glendronach has inspired a cult following in the last ten years or so. I've known about it for at least twenty years, but not because I'm some hipster who's "ahead of the curve" or who "knew it before…

A staple in whisky lore, available almost anywhere and unexpensive for a single malt, Cardhu and its iconic bottle are linked to the very idea of scotch itself. Let's review it.An intense amber pour that…

1895 saw the dawning of two new forms of art: Cinema and Comics, the Seventh and Ninth arts, respectevely. It also so the birth of the eponymous distillery in the little burgh of Dufftown, burgh aptly…

I was lucky enough to also get my hands of a sample of the Ainnir – which means something like ‘awakening’ in Gaelic – the inaugural release from Nc’nean of which bottle number one sold in a charity…

I was very charmed by the first batch of this new distillery, of which the name is best pronounced ‘nook-knee-anne’. Just like batch 1 this is a release of 5.040 bottles with the whisky again cut to 46%…