Teeling reviews

If I'm not mistaken, I was able to taste it in preview at the Spirits in the Sky whisky festival in Brussels last November. Chris Hayes then treated us to a dram of an umarked bottle (because the whiskey…

Grand Cru Edition? Is that a new series from Teeling? This is certainly the first release in the Small Batch Series to be labeled 'grand cru' and that may have everything to do with the fact that this…

The most recent release in Teeling's popular Renaissance series – each time their 18-year-old malt finished in a different type of cask – dates from August 2021. This time the malt got a finish on bar…

Teeling's first Renaissance was an 18-year-old finished in Madeira and I found it to be nothing short of brilliant. The second on Australian Shiraz Casks was absolutely not inferior. The expectations for…

The third and for the time being last edition in the so-called Sommelier Selection is a Teeling that got a finish on Amarone barrels. I'm curious about that now. Amarone is an Italian wine that takes its…

Aha! The Sommelier Selection. I already tasted the Margaux Wine release, but Teeling launched this Sauternes Wine Cask version in 2021. I confess, I was looking forward to that. The whiskey consists of…

For St. Patrick's Day – the national holiday in Ireland – Teeling launched a distillery exclusive last year that finished on Irish oak after a regular maturation in bourbon casks. This whiskey is a…

A Teeling blend from the Small Batch Collaboration finished on Aquavit casks of the Norwegian Oslo Handverksdestilleri (founded in 2015)... what the hell am I supposed to imagine? By the way, Oslo Han…

In the so-called Small Batch Collaboration, Teeling has released a lot of bottles in 2021. This is one of them, in collaboration with Dot Brew, in which the Bourbon barrel-aged Teeling – a blend, by the…

The Flemish whisky shops Prima Vinum and Dram 242 worked together to get this single cask from Teeling – a rum cask no less – bottled. It’s becoming almost embarrassing to admit, but again it was my…