Scotch Whisky reviews

The Ultimate is a series of single cask bottlings from the Dutch company Van Wees. This Bowmore was distilled on 31st May 2000 and bottled on 28th March 2013, making it a few weeks shy of 13 years old…

This new Bowmore was hype so much that it sold out in a flash. Of the 6.000 bottles, only 540 were destined for the domestic market in the UK and only 48 came to Belgium. The rest? To the States and the…

nose: a note of rum, walnuts, raisins, sherry (not that bomb as Glenfarclas in my opinion), light heather note, very very low and subtle smokiness, dried plums, vanilla, nutmeg, white pepper - the add…

This is certainly the wine-iest tasting whisky I’ve ever had, and I’m not whining about that at all. It’s also one of those for which no age statement is no matter. If a distillery must resort to fancy…

Kilchoman have just released their Kilchoman Club Second Edition, a small batch release of 2,000 bottles. It was distilled in October 2008, so is 5 years old at bottling, and has been bottled at a cask…

Alfred Prenzlow is an artist living in Leverkusen (Germany), who became famous for his paintings and sketches of everything to do with whisky. In the Prenzlow Portfolio Collection, released by Jack…

Lagavulin 16yo 43% OB, L0348CM000 07359725 (not sure what the numbers mean): bought and opened 5/25/2011 Lagavulin and I have a sordid history. The very first tasting notes I ever wrote down involved…

...in my opinion. Or it may just be that I'm not as fond of sherry monsters as I thought. Because it's all sherry, here -- with toffee and cranberries in the nose, along with earthy wet blossoms. There's…

Kilchoman's Machir Bay is the distillery's lovely and subtle core expression. The nose offers strong peat and yeasty biscuit notes, followed by an intense green apple sweetness that reminded me of those…