All Whisky reviews

Really liked it the first outline I tried it, now time to review. This is an amazing and complex whisky.

Nose: Raisins soaked in liquor. Cherries in rum. Spicy stuff, with Big wood. Kirsch. White chocolate. Whiff of smoke. Palate: Spicy with chocolate fondant filled with sugared cherries dipped in liquor…

After tasting decent Bowmore Legend I had high expectations about it's elder 18yo brother. But my experience never met my expectations. I usually like the whisky I taste, more or less. But this time I…

Notes from a phone...On opening, citrus, vanilla, ButtercupThen later, vanilla ice cream, creme brulee, sunflower seeds, faint whiffs of engine oilBody: vegetable matter, white pepper and button mushr…

Just in case there weren't enough reviews of Laphroaig 10 out there, I'll throw in my two-cents:The nose is awesome. Peat, peat, peat! This has a medicinal (band-aid) peat aroma. I am not a huge fan of…

Just not long ago I posted news about the release of this dram from AnCnoc (april) , and here we are tasting the latest release (if you do not count the 35 year old which was long due). I really wanted…

Colour: Pale golden straw. Body: Thin long legs down the glass. Nose: Winey, vanilla, orrange zest, water added: mandarin, marmelade. Taste: spice, toffe, honey, a bit of smoke. Water added: Spice dil…

750mL Chieftain's Cask Bottling. Distilled December 1997 and bottled in December 2011. 14 Year Old Peated Bunnahabhain.Pours a light straw, speckles of tears and big legs. Nose at first is harsh toasted…

Islay whiskies have a reputation as 'peat bombs.' And while this may be a major characteristic of most of the whiskies from the Island (The sweeter, sherried Bunnahabhain being a notable exception), for…

I capped off my "birthday week" by serving 3 Scotches in the office (paired with cheeses and chocolate). One was the Bowmore Tempest I already reviewed; another one was this one (which I had already…