All Whisky reviews

Forty Creek whiskies are made at the Kittling Ridge Distillery in Grimsby, Ontario. The reviewed bottle is # 06447 from lot # 1867. The bottle has been open for 4 1/2 months at the time of this review…

Century Reserve Whiskies are distilled at the Highwood Distillery in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The reviewed bottle has been open for 4 1/2 months. Colour: very paleNose: delicate, floral, with grapes and…

Macallan Cask Strength is undiluted malt aged in used sherry casks. There is no age statement on the bottle. The reviewed bottle has been open for 3 months. Colour: quite dark, from the Sherry cask aging…

Nose: Pine, dark chocolate - with water: coriander Taste: Blue Mountain coffee, phenolic, vintage leather, quite salty, chestnuts Finish: Incredibly long, cloves, peat, pepper and anchovies

Nose: Fennell, aniseed, melon (honeydew) with water: Tar, Taste: White chocolate, salt and vinegar crisps, phenolic, kippers Finish: Bacon, peat

Nose: Honey, marzipan, freshly mown grass Taste: Sugar puffs, honey, lemon, pear drops, white grape skin Finish: Bitter lemon, fairly short

Nose: Pine, creme brulee, raisins, cinnamon, apricots, nougat Taste: Grass, pepper, apricot, burnt toast, lime, nice mix of sherry and wood Finish: Fruity then develops into oak, syllabub?

Nose: Ham, salt, marmite, furniture polish, soya sauce, leather, vanilla Taste: Sugar coated bacon chops, peppermint, oak Finish: Drying mint develops into charcoal, mint jelly

Nose: Raisins, sherry, walnuts Taste: Nutty, sea salt, toffee, seaweed, vanilla Finish: Pepper, long finish, brine

Nose: Apple, lemon, demerera sugar, with water = leather Taste: Apple, caramel, pomegranate, burnt lemon curd Finish: Medium length - figs - apple!