Scotch Whisky reviews

Review is of a sample kindly provided by @RianC. Dram has been poured about 30 mins before I started sipping.NoseReally nice nose. Campfire smoke and very sweet peat that comes across as an apple pie …

Recently, I grabbed a bottle from the bottom shelf of a low market liquor store in the outskirts of the city. The next day I returned to get another one. Have l become a low life in need of cheap thrills…

Nose: a bit sweet. Also dank, mossy. Dried orange peel, raisin, damp wood, very slight peat. A decent range of aromas, but ultimately quite thin.Taste: that hard bite of young grain whisky. A bit more…

This is my first Glendroach cask strength. It's 10 years old matured in Oloroso and PX casks. Bottled at 61%. Batch 8 released in 2019.It was a Christmas present so I didn't purchase it myself but it…

This is my first bottle of Deanston whisky. Not my usual thing to start with the 18 but at the time I brought the bottle I had a lot of younger whiskies in my stash and not many 15+ whiskies.First thing…

Fair to say I have never had a bad Compass Box whisky! I loved the Spice Tree and very much enjoyed Hedonism too. All others were, at least on the tastes I've had, enjoyable as well. This is the 2018…

Kilchoman has quite a few port casks in their warehouses from a non-disclosed port producer from the Douro valley in Portugal. Part of those were put to sleep in 2011 to be released three years later at…

This single cask was bottled for The Nectar, Belgian importer. After a regular maturation on a bourbon cask, it was finished on a rum cask from Barbados. The malt has it’s usual 50ppm and the whisky was…

This 3 years old Kilchoman was bottled especially for Belgium. Note that it’s still the previous bottle shape. But the content is again a textbook version of bourbon cask matured Kilchoman. The ABV…

There are regular releases of the Original Cask Strength, which is consistently a vatting of former bourbon barrel. This release, distilled in 2009 and bottled in 2014, knew a release of no less than 9…