Scotch Whisky reviews

Did you know that Albyn is taken from Alba or Albion, the old name for Scotland? During WWI, the distillery was used by the British navy and they even made some sea mines here. The distillery was closed…

This independent bottling from Signatory is my first acquaintance with Ardmore, unless you count the many drams of Teacher’s Highland Cream I’ve consumed. Ardmore is one of the main malts used in blen…

I was scared of this single malt and even more scared to write this review until i got a better handling of this beast, Nose: Peat, lemon-lime, dark chocolate, Menthol, black pepper, a hemp like aroma…

Cadenhead, under the impulse of Mark Watt, has just released a new series named Small Batch. He returned to the old fashioned look that Cadenhead employed in the late Sixties of last century. I love that…

Banff is one of the distilleries that did not survive the big closing round in 1983, executed by Diageo. So this is not a whisky that you encounter often. So far, I have only tried two myself; a 37 Year…

I think Scapa 16 is underrated. It is a nice craft-oriented dram that really hit the spot after I gave a lecture yesterday and needed a respite. It does have a strange tincture mixed in with biscuit,…

This semi-limited release (less than 6000 bottles) from Diageo’s Classic Malts lineup of 2010 is one of the few OBs of Auchroisk since the demise of their Singleton brand in 2000. It’s a Speyside dist…