All Whisky reviews

This was originally marketed in Ontario as the Jim McEwan Special Edition (but must have failed to sell).Slightly sweet nose, redolent of red wine (go figure), coffee and caramel. Mild and light.Flavours…

Colour is lighter than the port pipe Bruichladdich but still a rich red.Starts with a sulphury nose, little swish and it moves toward spicy oak and cherry wine.Firey at the tip of the tongue, finishing…

Nose is pure bourbon barrel. Lots of spicy oak and toasty vanilla.First taste has a touch of lemon and other citrus, but again plenty of toasty oak flavour. The lemon tends toward neo-citron, warm and…

This one is the sherry single cask, and the Kensington Wine Market single cask bottling.Sherry nose. Did I mention the sherry?Spicy and hot first taste. Some very bright acidic flavour and a toasty…

Very very light nose. Fresh and clean with a some licorice and malt flavours.Soft. Again repeats the touch of licorice and very well balanced. A little bit sour kick at the end.

My wife and I had recently attended a Scotch Malt Whisky Society tasting, a group of whisky enthusiasts known world wide for their rare cask strength selections that are brilliant and oftentimes weird…

A Laffie from the Scotch Malt Whisky Society, matured on a refill sherry butt. But a very active butt, judging from the colour. Hmm, that did not come out right, did it? Replace butt with cask in the…

Raw Cask means cask sediment, those ugly little black bits in your glass. I do not care much for those, I admit. Seems more like a gimmick, since the whisky is filtered, despite appearances. If it were…

The newest Laphroaig from Malts of Scotland is a 16 Year Old. It was released in what I call their winter release, although I have the feeling autumn release would be more accurate. I am quite certain…

I finish my line-up of Laffies with this 21 Year Old distillate from 1990 by Italian bottler Wilson & Morgan. The peat is mild on the nose. It is sweet on winegums. Some vanilla and lemon. The maritime…