All Whisky reviews

Another first release from a new distillery, always something to look forward to. In this case, Ardnamurchan actually waited until their whisky was five years old. This is a vatting of 53 casks: 65%…

From what I can find online, Connemara is owned by Beam Suntory and is part of the Kilbeggan brand portfolio, er, I mean the Kilbeggan Family. I believe this sample was distilled at the Cooley distillery…

Old review from November 2015; I scribbled this one down at a very interesting joint in Cuenca (Spain) named Jovi: it was a dark, leather-laden, English-styled old pub right in the middle of the old…

This bottle was most kindly sent my way via the generosity of @cricklewood. Too kind, Sir! It's been open over ten months now and is about half full.Now I could go into the specs of this whisky in a…

Old review: get yourselves back to Nov 23, 2015, early evening. Where were you? (Rhetorical question.) I was by a fireplace at a cozy boutique hotel in Madrid that goes by the name Only You (strongly…

I was surprised a few months ago when I was looking through my miniatures and I came across this one, and I realized I had not done a review of it yet. I was waiting to do it as my 200th review but then…

I must confess, the first time I tried this Mortlach, I was not very impressed. The second time was much better, but I still was not convinced. I’m writing these notes during the third round (luckily I…

Ah… a golden oldie from the Rare Malts Selection, longer in the bottle by now than it ever spent in the cask. Distilled in 1978 and bottled after 20 years at a whopping 62.2% ABV. You’ll have a very hard…

This suspciously pale Mortlach from Signatory – in their Cask Strength Collection with those mighty decanters – was bottled from a sherry butt. I presume it was a refill sherry cask. No less than 639…

The boys and girls of BYOB-C (Bring Your Own Bottle Club from Belgium) have quite a few releases on their resumé. There is the Lads of Lobland series, the ongoing Mobsters on Mopeds and the Bearded…