Scotch Whisky reviews

This 15 years old Triple Cask Matured whisky from Macallan matured on American and European casks that were prepared with sherry as well as former bourbon casks. It’s the successor to the Fine Oak series…

When Macallan introduced the Fine Oak – more than a decade ago now – this caused something of an earthquake. Until then Macallan’s claim to fame was the fact that they matured exclusively on sherry oak…

I have missed the Edition No 1 and by now it has become so expensive that I’ll probably never get to try it. Edition No 2, a collaboration with the chefs of the world famous Spanish restaurant El Cellar…

The new core range of BenRiach consists of a 10 and 12 years old, both unpeated and peated. The fun part is the fact that all four expressions are made up of different cask types. That makes it quite…

BenRiach has been known for it’s peated expressions so clearly this had to be included in the totally new core range. This was a distillate from both peated and unpeated barley and matured on a combin…

Next to the new ten years old entry level malt – christened The Original Ten – there is also a new twelve years old concocted by Rachel Barrie, the master blender at BenRiach. For this whisky she married…

Late summer 2020 BenRiach launched a new core range. Bottles and tubes got a new look, but more importantly: Rachel Barrie (my muze with Auchentoshan a few years ago, remember?) created this new ‘The…

At the end of 2020 BenRiach announced they would give the core-range a completely new look – and a new recipe. Well, I would very much like to find out more, but before I do that I wish to acclimatize…

A'Bunadh needs no introduction. I've reviewed Batch 53 and Batch 58, and I'm sure I'll review more batches. I've liked pretty much every Aberlour offering I've ever tasted so, spoiler alert, it's unli…

According to their website, Arran is the only whisky company authorized by the World Burns Federation to produce a whisky with the Ploughman Poet's name on it. Arran have the authorisation to use Bur…