Scotch Whisky reviews

The old Select from the early 90s of last century come in two different packaging. One with the word Select on it and one without. The bottle without was destined for the Italian market, but the whisky…

Laphroaig distillery (the name means "the beautiful hollow by the broad bay") was established in 1815, by Alex and Donald Johnston. It was sold to Long John International in the 1960ies and subsequently…

Linlithgow is the name of the village where the Saint Magdalene distillery was operational from 1798 until 1983. A lot of independent bottlers therefor choose to put the name Linlithgow on their bottles…

Dun Bheagan is a label from Ian MacLeod Distillers. For this bottling, they vatted two casks and cut it to a drinking strength. It is 13 years old. The nose starts off closed and needs quite a bit of…

The newest Auchentoshan from Douglas Laing was bottled in their brand new Old Particular range, of which I already tried ad fantastic Auchroisk, a superb Glen Garioch, but also a soapy Bowmore. I was…

Another cask from the Auchentoshan visitor center is this Auchentoshan 1999, bottled in 213. It is, like his predecessor, bourbon cask matured, cask 2052. I try it from a bottle of 20cl that my buddy…

Well, I should preface this review by admitting I am somewhat prejudiced against the Sark. I nipped at a bottle of Cutty Sark as a teen and stayed away from scotch for while after due to what I perceived…

My grampa used to have a saying. "Fool Me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me". It won't happen again with this dram. Richard Patterson apparently designed this malt blend from 16 different…