All Whisky reviews

Obviously the Lindores Abbey Distillery enjoys the reputation of the historically important location, the abbey which is considered by many to be the spiritual home of whisky, where Friar John Cor was…

At the end of 2018 the long awaited first release from the Kingsbarn Distillery appeared and they are slowly building up a range, but one needs to be patient. In the meantime, my wiskybuddy Anthony…

Bladnoch is another one of those distilleries that does not appear on my scope very often, but a while ago I got this sample of a 16 years old from 1992, bottled in 2009, but my buddy Manny. It’s a…

The Glasgow Distillery Company was founded in 2014 and can be found about 1.5 kilometers to the west of the city center. It takes its name from the old Glasgow Distillery that was operational near Dun…

Darkness is a series from Master of Malt in which the whisky is finished for at least three months in small sherry octave casks. In their own words: ‘subtlety, poise and elegance have no place here.’ The…

Just as they did in 2019, Douglas Laing launched a single cask Auchentoshan voor Halloween in 2020. Again a single cask from 1996, now 23 years old. Again it sold out very quickly, for it was a very…

Until 2018 Cellar Trends was the company that distributed Auchentoshan on the home market. It was founded in 1999. To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the collaboration, the company selected a cask from…

Glentoshan? What? Yup. This Pure Malt from the 1970s appeared as Glentoshan on the Italian market. Glen Grant was the most popular malt – and is still very popular – so then-owners of Auchentoshan dec…

Never heard of Old Rhosdhu? Nae worries, you are not alone! There are only about 40 releases worldwide. It’s a malt style that was distilled at the versatile Loch Lomond distillery between 1966 and 2000…

Glenturret is better known as the home of Scotland's best selling blended whisky, The Famous Grouse. I believe this is the first Glenturret I’ve tried. I didnt write down who provided the sample but I…