Scotch Whisky reviews

The last dram in my little Clynelish & Brora line-up is this 7th release from 2008. It contains a 25 Year Old Brora, a bottle that nowadays will set you back around 400 EUR. Ouch! It is a mix of both…

The Whiskyman – aka our friend Dominiek Bouckaert – launched his Isle of Jura 1988 exclusively for the Viking Lines, the Scandinavian ferry service. Hence it is hard to come by in Belgium. Unless you…

This 9th release from 2009 was one of the last official Port Ellen that was released with a somewhat normal price tag at the start. But that does not mean you can still find it at said price, of course…

A 20th-anniversary gift from the missus, this one. We cracked open the bottle last night and toasted with a couple of drams, and then decided to put the bottle away for our next anniversary. I confess…

As most people who've spent more then two minutes with me know, I'm a Talisker fan, in fact I'm more then a Talisker fan, I'm a Talisker freak. The 10 year old is one of those bang for buck entry level…

The Platinum Selection from Douglas Laing is also known as Old & Rare. This Port Ellen definitely fits that description. Distilled in 1979, bottled at cask strength in 2009 at the age of 29. A gem, no…

Kilchoman Machir Bay 2012 is just a beautiful drinking Whisky. As you may already be aware this is a very young whisky being a vatting of 3,4 and 5 year old bourban barrels which are then finished for…

There is not a lot of information to be found about Matthew D Forrest. It would seem it was a bottler that operated in Japan. Some sources say the man was born on 28 October 1939 and passed away at the…

Brora is almost legendary, rivaled for cult status only by Port Ellen. So I feel privileged to put two Brora samples H2H today. I will start with this rather pale 19 Year Old Brora, that was bottled by…

The story of Brora & Clynelish has been explained before. The first whisky is almost legendary, the second highly praised by many connoisseurs. So this week I will try a couple of Clynelish and Brora.…