Scotch Whisky reviews

Another obscure distillery to cross off my checklist. This is probably the palest whisky I've ever seen - especially strange when thinking that it's aged 17 years.The nose is of freshly sliced green…

I have had the pleasure of trying several Longmorn, but this is only my third youngling. Two other 12 year olds were the Longmorn 1996 in the Carn Mor Vintage Collection, the other the rather outstanding…

Color: Gold.Nose: Right out of the bottle the peat hits you with a strong Stilton cheese-like aroma and the embers of a dying campfire, tempered with sweeter notes of sliced red grapes and night-blooming…

The smaller the cask, the more intense the interation between the wood and the spirit. Logical. Duncan Taylor put this to the test with the The Octave Cask series. After a regular maturating in butts,…

This is the latest Tempest - Batch 4. With a few drops of water from the start.On the nose I detect honey the strongest. This is followed by a sharp lemony edge with peaty-smokiness underneath. I find…

The last Longmorn that I try in this little line-up, is the newest from Malts of Scotland. And what a nice Longmorn indeed! No less than 36 years old from the legendary vintage (for Longmorn at least)…

I could not pass this up when I saw a bottle of this for only $58 US. Basically, the sweetness and sherry without smoke remind me of a Glenlivet 18, but at about $30 US less. The only problem is this one…

This is a rich malt. Rich in the nose, rich in the taste, rich in the mouthfeel. A little drier and maybe just a little more spirity (the newer ones seem to be) than the 33, but a very fine dram.Choco…

On the nose, sherry and caramel predominate. Doesn't seem so complex but it's nice. Not in a hurry to get past this to the drink.On the tongue, caramel again and the oak comes through, not as sweet as…