All Whisky reviews

This time we’re getting some oak, definitely aged spirit colour, nose and palate. A bit young I might say. here we go:Nose: A very interesting nose indeed with Banana peel , vegetal notes as well (…

Nose: Starting with a whiff of acetone, lemon , dough , wet wood, cherubs,,nuts and some vanilla too. a rather odd combo i might add.Palate: Spicy, peppery, some nougat, also quite mineral with a splash…

As some of us notes, this one is related somehow to #3. similar nose and feeling to it…Nose: Acetone, lemon grass, some malt is hidden behind those… pear drops. Palate: Spices, ginger, sweet syrup, malt…

Wow.Nose: OMG. we’re in a different world. Peat and smoke enter the game and the nose is a party! Peat, sherry, and smoke: the holy trinity. spent matches, fire crackers. dark fruits with smoke. wood…

Hakushu is relatively young distillery, founded in 1973. It was not bottled as single malt until 1984. This 10 Year Old is the entry level malt of this distillery, whose name means ‘white sandbank’,…

Hakushu uses water from the Ojira and Jingu rivers which is considered among the purest in Japan and therefor bottled as such by Suntory (which owns Hakushu). This whisky is their 18 Year Old, with a…

The color of this sherry matured Hakushu is really dark. Almost like coffee! The sherry butt was put to sleep in 1989 and bottled 20 years later for the 10th anniversary of Sukhinder Singh’s shop The…

Hakushu (pronounce ‘hack-shoe’) released this Heavily Peated on the market in 2009. It serves as the Japanese answer to the popular Islay whiskies. It is very light in color and bottled at 48% ABV.The…

I don’t understand the logics of whisky marketing and sales. There are some hidden gems at a low price that are rarely found in the shelves of liquor stores. Neither do the distilleries advertise them…

This lite honey colored charmer has a lot going on, in a simple way. The nose is like creamy milk and whisky mixed. The whole thing reminds me of the field near the dairy farm where I grew up. Old cut…