Scotch Whisky reviews

This Speyside malt slept for two decades on refill and freshly charred casks. Wonderfully fruity nose on melon, grass, hint of ointment (!), kiwi and quince. And a hint of green banana. Very creamy on…

This Singleton contains malt from the Dufftown distillery and matured solely on refill American oak. Nicely fresh and reminds me of spring. Lots of hay and corn flakes with apple sauce and lime, honey…

This Speysider matured on a combination of refill casks, new oak and former bourbon casks. A bit of a funny nose on acid candy, lime juice and some breakfast cereals. Suprisingly mild with some cedar…

For me, a hard one to rate against my usual fare.The nose seems to portray hints of caramel, nuts, orange peel and oak.At first sip the tongue notices the sherry and oak influences. I found a bit of a…

This bottle of Aberfeldy has been in my cabinet for some time and as I get down near the bottom quarter of the bottle I thought I would give it a review.It has been somewhat of an average drink really…

On August 15, 2020, a small group of us had a Zoom Tasting of 4 mystery samples. We had received them from @Fiddich1980 and tried them earlier, and then we went through them together. 2 of the 4 sam…

There it is: the 6th and final expression in the Macallan Edition series. I had the privilege to taste it during an online presentation by Macallan, including the whisky but also quite a bit of explan…

The Classic Cut series was launched by Macallan in 2017 and might be considered on homage to the Macallan from an era gone by – before the launch of the Fine Oak when bourbon casks made their introduc…

The Macallan Estate – named Easter Elchies – is 485 hectares and can be found along the Spey. Master Blender Sarah Burgess was inspired by the estate to create this NAS expression, distilled from barley…

This 18 years old in the new(ish) Triple Cask Matured series from Macallan is the high end release. It matured on three types of casks: boubon casks and both American and European sherry seasoned casks…