All Whisky reviews

Very light in colour, light yellow and soft around the edges. Nose is hot (surprise! 61.9% hot), with a medicinal finish. First taste is the fire-y bite moving into the iodine and salt air.

BenRiach releases single casks at cask strength since 2004. By 2011 they had already reached batch 8, which contains no less than 12 single cask releases. This is one of the younger, a 22 Year Old Spe…

This 32 Year Old BenRiach, finished on Takaji wine, is from Batch 7 of single cask releases in 2010. Tokaji is an Hungarian wine, made from grapes that suffer from noble rot. They grow on volcanic soil…

Today I am putting two similar BenRiach together, both with a Virgin American Oak finish, meaning they were first matured on ex-bourbon casks and then re-casked into new wood from the States. Let us…

Today I am putting two similar BenRiach together, both with a Virgin American Oak finish, meaning they were first matured on ex-bourbon casks and then re-casked into new wood from the States. I started…

This is the oldest BenRiach I have tasted sof ar. No less than 39 years of age, distilled while I still ran around in diapers. And according to the ABV, bottled in the nick of time. Only 168 bottles of…

I recently tasted a 22 Year Old and 32 Year Old Benriach that were finished on new, so-called virgin, American oak. This is somewhere in between with its 26 years of age, but has an added twist: it is…

While this peated BenRiach is finished on port pipes, it has a full golden color from the bourbon cask. I presume it was a tired port cask.Oh, the nose is just great. Peat first, followed by graphite,…

Asta Morris, Flemish for ‘if it is only just that’, is the by now almost legendary label of Bert Bruyneel. He has bottled excellent whiskies that are getting rave reviews, but his single cask BenRiach…

As I’ve mentioned in the last post about the 1975 vintage Balblair, another new vintage will be released shortly by the guys from Edderton: a much younger 2002 edition. Again, this one will be bottled…