All Whisky reviews

Long time no see, folks! Corona and stuff make things move so sloooow...Anyway, finally I could manage to travel again and here we went, on to Het Anker, Mechelen (Belgium) once again. This time it was…

According to legend, a Viking ship sailed from Norway in search of an island from the fables. This is 868 AD and the leader was the fearless Hrafna-Flóki, who had three ravens with him. The birds led him…

Smokey Quartz is a veteran owned and operated artisan distillery in New Hampshire, USA. Kevin Kurland – who served in Iraq – produces a number of artisan spirits such as Solid Granite Vodka, Granite…

Although I have no certainty, I think this whiskey – it should not be called bourbon, because matured on a barrel that has been used before – comes from the huge Midwest Grain Products plant in Indiana…

I taste this right after the Special No 17 which also got a moscatel finish, but what I have in my glass now is much younger. After all, it matured for barely 4 years. But it's the peated version of…

Zuidam also likes to experiment with peated malt and different types of barrels. This young Millstone, aged on an oloroso sherry barrel for barely 4 years, makes my mouth water.The nose is relatively…

Patrick Zuidam has been producing whisky at the Zuidam Distillery in Baarle-Nassau since 1996. Although it wasn’t until 2007 before the first malt of this Dutch distillery appeared on the market. Under…

An Amercan single malt whiskey. Not something you come across every day. I got to know this distiller thanks to an online World Whisky Tour tasting a few months ago. A single malt from Oregon, that in…

Three Ships is a South-African whisky from the Distell group. That explains the ABV, for they bottle Deanton, Bunnahabhain and Tobermory/Ledaig also at this strength, which makes chillfiltration super…

Practice makes perfect. When I tried some of the Eddu whisky a few years back, I was not impressed. But they have improved significantly since then. Take this 2021 release of their Eddu Brocéliande for…