Scotch Whisky reviews

Tamnavulin… now that is a distillery that really does not appear on my radar often. This is only the twelfth dram I try from this Speysider. The name of the distillery, by the way, means ‘mill on the…

This Tamdhu from Chieftain’s Choice was distilled when yours truly was a few months shy of owning his very first moped. Sixteen years late it was bottle, meaning this malt by now has spent more time in…

Look now, an older release in the Exclusive Malts series by the Creative Whisky Company, when packaging was not yet important… This very young Tomatin has spent more time in the bottle than it did on the…

There is not all that much of information to be found of this young Tomatin, bar the fact that it’s a single cask that was released in small bottles for The Golden Still (don’t even know if that is a pub…

At the end of 2019 I hosted a tasting and my buddy Manny turned up as well. Manny never turns up without something to taste of his own. After the tasting opened up this Tormore 1992 that was bottled for…

For the second release in MMM’s Artist Series Manny and I returned to Orkney. You may remember our Orkney 2002 that we released two years ago in our Antarctica Series. Well, we found a cask that, in our…

This is the last of three mystery samples distributed by @Cricklewood for a zoom tasting that took place on April 5, 2019. We were asked to try them in advance of getting together, then we went through…

Okay, so I know around here overpeated, extra-smoky whiskies are more than appreciated, and I'm not going to say I dislike them or anything like that, but in my book (and only mine) drams shouldn't lean…

The Deanston Cotton Mill opened its doors way back in 1785. By the mid-1960s the cotton industry in Scotland had declined and Deanston switched over to making whisky. From what I could find on the int…

Since taking up residence in Southeast Asia, I had a visit from a dear old friend who remarked: “I’ve realized that everything here has the form without the function.” Quite so. Traffic lights are…