Scotch Whisky reviews

This young Bunnahabhain from 2007 was bottled by Robin Tuced and his Blackadder team in their famous Raw Cask series. It matured on a hogshead before being finish in a sherry cask. The ABV suggests that…

Independent bottler Adelphi was able to get their hands on a refill sherry cask in which the spirit of Bunnahabhain matured for 14 years, from 1997 until 2012. It yielded 525 bottles at cask strength.…

Feinkost Reifferscheid is a family run delicatessen in Bonn, Germany, founded in 1890 and run today by Bärbel and Lutz Reiferscheid. Since 1993 they also sell whisky. From time to time they bottle some…

Whiskyclub Ypenburg from Holland was founded in 2014 by a guy named Ruud. By now, they host monthly tastings. In 2016 they launched their first club bottling – a 23 years old Bunnahabhain, bottled in…

Bunnahabhain is Gaelic for ‘mouth of the river’ and can be found north of Port Askaig on Islay, founded in 1881. Their whisky is considered to be among the lightest of the island peat-wise (if we make…

Will you look at this? Another Octomore that was hyped so much that it sold out in a flash and fetches almost 400 EUR at auctions – which is ridiculously expensive for a 50cl bottle of a ten years old…

The most recent release in the Black Art Series was put together from casks that were laid down in 1994. This is the year in which the distillery closed for a long time. It was only reopened by Mark…

Just like its predecessors, the composition of this sixth Black Art remains top secret. All we know is that Adam Hannett created an unpeated malt with casks that were put to sleep when he was still…

The Black Art 05.1 is Adam Hannet’s first. Adam is the protégé and successor to the legendary Jim McEwan. The youngest whisky in this vatting – of which the cask types are a closely guarded secret – is…

The Black Art Series from Bruichladdich is almost legendary. Created by Jim McEwan, this is a vatting of different casks, but the type is kept top secret. Black Art is of course a nod to alchemy. This…