Scotch Whisky reviews

I'm behind on my sample reviews, so I'm trying to catch up. This is a blind sample which is always more fun since my preconceptions and biases are taken out of the equation.This sample comes to me cou…

You have not yet heard of Croftengea? No worries, you are not alone. Even after more than 4500 whisky’s under my belt, this is only the second Croftengea that I will be trying myself! This malt is one…

Kilchoman is the youngest operational distillery on Islay (for now). My experience with their offerings isn’t extensive but I’ve liked everything I’ve tried from them. Sanaig is rumoured to be 70-80% ex…

I just couldn't resist this one, despite it being out of my price range: a medium-peated, cask-strength, uncoloured, non-chillfiltered, 12 year old Cragganmore. The standard 12 year old is a personal…

Standard Bowmore releases seem to get no love from the whisky connoisseur community. Sure, older bottlings from the 1960s and 1970s are sought after, as are Bowmore offerings from Independent Bottlers…

Not the first I've tried, mind you, but the first I've owned. Not sure why it took me so long.On the nose, there is warm, thick, sweet, perfumed, enveloping smokiness. A different quality of smoke that…

Pittyvaich is a bit of a special distillery. She has the dubious honor of being the distillery with the shortest ever career, just under twenty years. Opened in 1974 by Arthur Bell & Sons and closed…

The oldest distillery from Inverness, founded in 1807, had the same name as the town. When she was acquired by David Rose in 1853, she was converted into a grain mill, only to be reinstated as a disti…

Lochside did not really have a long life. It was founded in 1957 in the old buildings of the Deuchars & Sons brewery that was active there since 1781. Initially the distillery was founded purely to…

Imperial is no more. The distillery – that was more closed than open – has been demolished. At the site Chivas Brothers built a modern distillery in 2014: Dalmunach. We’ll try an older release from…