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Today we go to Day 2 of the Kensington Wine Market 2020 Whisky Advent Calendar, and it's one I have had before but haven't reviewed here: Craigellachie 13 Year Old.The colour is a dark gold. Rich on the…

Our third and final Millstone is Dec 1 in this year's KWM Whisky Advent Calendar: a single barrel, barrel proof whisky of 51% malted rye and 49% unmalted rye, matured in American Virgin Oak - no age…

Our next Millstone is a peated single malt distilled in May 2013 and bottled - according to the hand-written label - on April 31 2018. This is Bottle No. 4230. Not sure if this spent the entire time in…

My reviews have been few and far between lately (for lots of reasons) but now that my Whisky Advent Calendar has arrived from Kensington Wine Market, I'll be trying to do some on a much more regular…

As long as there is a pandemic, I’ll continue my online whisky tasting, the so-called WhisQy Masterclasses. WhisQy with the Q of Quarantine of course. They are quite popular which makes me happy, for it…

Barely three months ago I tried the Distillers Edition from 2007, bottled in 2017. But I recently presented this version from 2009, bottled in 2019, during my online tasting WhisQy (Whisky in Quarantine…

Diageo’s Distillers Editions appear on a yearly basis. Their classic malts then get a second maturation. For the Talisker, that’s on Amoroso sherry casks. This is the Talisker DE from 2007 that was…

The Talisker 10 does not need an introduction. While quite a few NAS releases saw the light of day in recent years (Skye, Storm, Dark Storm, Port Ruighe), the ten years old remains my favorite entry…

Luckily the Edradour malts are sometimes also bottled at cask strength as is the case with sherry cask #414 that went into these lovely Ibisco decanter. Exactly 700 were released. I got hold of a sample…

Only a few months ago I tried sister cask #395 which I dubbed Christmas Dram. Thanks to a friend in Budapest, Hungary, I was able to secure a sample of cask #354 that was bottled just a month prior to…