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Nose: Hints of smoke and peat with an unmistakeable champagne vapour complimenting citrus notes. I can smell sour marmalade and earth. Colour: A beautiful deep yellow slightly darker than apple juice.…

Nose: Wow! I feel naughty... hints of cigarette smoke!! Peat and smoke common among the Islay malts. Subtle hints of the sea, but light and fresh. Rain at the beach! Colour: A light yellow. Taste: Gentle…

Nose: Light and fresh. Lemon and orange peel, sweet tones arise and wrestle with the spirit which is barely noticeable. No heavy or pungent smell, very gentle and light. A pleasure to nose because it has…

If you read my last review, of Bunnahbhain 12, this dram followed that one. Sitting at an extensive bar, tasting new things... what an awesome night. So I was talking to the bartender and told him that…

Chit chatting with my new favorite whisky bartender the other night, I looked up and saw a couple Japanese labels up on the shelves. I've been hearing a lot of talk about the Japanese scene here on…

Following the Yamakazi, I had this, continuing my introduction to Japanese Whisky. Nose: To me, another light nose. The front end of this is heavy on the smoke and peat, which quickly gives way to flo…

A while back, before Christmas in fact, Abbey whisky contacted me asking if I'd like to try their new whisky bottling, Caperdonich. They asked me this after I'd contacted them asking what Silent Disti…

From the second i purchased this it had all the signs of quality. The glass bottle is long and slimline rather than the short and fat bottles we see nowadays and the bottle is housed in a cardboard box…

Orkney? Bere? In an Arran island malt? how come? I bet you are asking yourselves the same questions. So a little explaining is needed here: Bere is Scotland’s oldest cultivated barley and was commonly…

Lochside Distillery closed in 1992 and was demolished in 2005. So far I have only tried old Lochside. So let me try a younger version today from this lost distillery. It is a bottling from Gordon &…