Scotch Whisky reviews

This 25 years old Laddie was selected by the Dutch importer Bresser & Timmer. No less than 240 bottles of this stuff went to my northerly neighbors.Ooh, yes, this is a very good nose. Kiwi skins, pears…

Cuvée 640 is a Bruichladdich that got a finish on a… cognac cask! The label states overigens ‘Oh Mensch! Gieb Acht! Was spricht die tiefe mitternacht?’ which is the opening line from ‘Also Sprach Zara…

Cuvée… the name says it all. This is one of three 21 year old Bruichladdich malts that was finished – in this case on sweet Barsac and Sauternes casks. It has a beautiful bronze color. This Laddie was…

This private cask was selected by 5 Dutch friend, but in the end is an homage to Ronald Janssen who unfortunately passed away before the bottling took place. It’s a 10 years old Laddie that matured on…

I'm not the first to find out that there's no entry level for the J&B Rare mini, so pay no attention to the 70 cl yadda-yadda, please. I found this little bottle inside my late stepmom's cabinet, so…

A distillery that needed some love and a good injection of cash, which it received a few years ago when they did away with the disco cows and put forth a basic but interesting rangeNose: Fresh, butter…

We all know that Lagavulin leans towards the peaty side, but -how could we balance that and, still, recognise it as such? Well, here's a crazy idea: PX casks.So we get some barrels that previously were…

Tullibardine from the 1970s: I have not tried many. The only two – both from 1973 – were tasted at a friend’s birthday party (he was born in 1973). Now I have a Tullibardine 1975 in my glass, an official…

I have had the good fortune of trying several well-aged Tomintoul. This is my 7th that is 40 years or older. And all of them were excellent! So the expectations for this Old Malt Cask are pretty high…

For my thirteenth encounter with this distillery, I selected a 28 years old Tamnavulin that was distilled in 1988 and bottled at cask strength in 2016 by A.D. Rattray. It’s not easy to find official…