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.

Nose: moderate peat, sweet malt, licorice, roses, and a little brineTaste: lots of peat on the palate, very sweet, moderate brine and tart lemon. This dries the tongue. These are strong and deep flavo…

My friend who lives in Queensland Australia, Systemdown, and I decided to trade some whisky samples recently. It allowed us to try more whiskies for less cash in order to discover more whiskies that we…

In January 2011, BenRiach launched the 15 Year Old Solstice, a heavily peated version that got a Tawny Port Pipe finish after the regular maturation on bourbon barrels. It was very well received, which…

BenRiach releases single cask on cask strength on a yearly basis. Batch 8, bottled in 2011, contains among others this 19 Year Old, finished on Tawny Port casks. Only 294 bottles are (were) available.The…

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…