All Whisky reviews

Nose: pine, vanilla ice cream, dark chocolate. Seems like an odd combo, but works well. Chocolate-covered cherries. Youthful, complex, and intriguing. Taste: full-bodied and rich with immediate impact…

On ice at Dry Martini Bar, Madrid. It pours clean and dark orangish amber. Aroma is very high: tobacco, leather, hazelnut, cinnamon and sweet orange. Mouthfeel is pungent, powerful and just slightly…

Nose: Actually not what i was thinking of when i read ‘sherry cask’. it’s not heavily sherried, more a fruity edge to it. first of all you get apples, baked apples, more like sweet apple sauce, but not…

On ice. Hazy and dark, wheat-hued. Medium intensity aromas: pineapple gummy bears (you know, the white ones), sweet'n'pungent spices (such as clove and sizzling cinnamon). Mouthfeel starts somewhat…

At a very reasonable £65, single malt scotch of this age is hard to come by. Independence has its benefits i suppose.Matured in bourbon and olorosso sherry casks this whisky is then vatted in small…

I’m a real fan of japanese whiskey, it is a shame age statements have become so expensive. The Hibiki 17 was a wonderful expression when it was available for £70ish and the nikka 12 is one i continue to…

his year saw the 10th Whisky Show , organized by the fine guys at The Whisky Exchange. In addition to the Epic tastings and many event (that i missed, yet again!), they bottle some fine whiskies for the…

We come to the second whisky released in the cool ‘future’ of whisky , this time it’s just ‘The Future’. So, the future is older grain? Not a bad future at all methinks. I am a big fan of older grains…

14 Year old Ardbeg... supposedly done in a sherry cask. That part of the label alone has me scratching my head - either it's some kind of white sherry that I didn't know existed, or it was an incredibly…

NoseCereal, white wine, beeswaxPalateStarts off quite fruity, with some apple cider vinegar, barley sugar and something sweet and acetone tasting. But not pear drops. More apple flavoured. It reminds…