All Whisky reviews

Review is of a sample kindly provided by @RianC. Dram has been poured about 30 mins before I started sipping.NoseReally nice nose. Campfire smoke and very sweet peat that comes across as an apple pie …

Recently, I grabbed a bottle from the bottom shelf of a low market liquor store in the outskirts of the city. The next day I returned to get another one. Have l become a low life in need of cheap thrills…

Nose: a bit sweet. Also dank, mossy. Dried orange peel, raisin, damp wood, very slight peat. A decent range of aromas, but ultimately quite thin.Taste: that hard bite of young grain whisky. A bit more…

This is my first Glendroach cask strength. It's 10 years old matured in Oloroso and PX casks. Bottled at 61%. Batch 8 released in 2019.It was a Christmas present so I didn't purchase it myself but it…

Old Ezra is a product marketed by Lux Row Distillers (who do not distill) in Bardstown Kentucky. The details about where they get their distillate is best explained in @Victor’s review here:https://www…

I've always felt that the Gooderham & Worts line was like the overlooked middle child of Corby's Northern Border Collection. Lot 40 is bold and assertive, like a typical first-born. Pike Creek gets…

This is my first bottle of Deanston whisky. Not my usual thing to start with the 18 but at the time I brought the bottle I had a lot of younger whiskies in my stash and not many 15+ whiskies.First thing…

Fair to say I have never had a bad Compass Box whisky! I loved the Spice Tree and very much enjoyed Hedonism too. All others were, at least on the tastes I've had, enjoyable as well. This is the 2018…

Let’s remain on New Zealand just a bit longer and try a whisky that was distilled by Willowbank. That distillery is no more – it closed in 1997 and the still were sold to a rum producer on Fiji – but the…

I just tried the New Zealand single malt 2015 Just Hatched that was distilled in November 2015 and bottle 3 years later, in November 2018. Desiree Whitaker decided, in 2020 in honor of the local whisk…