All Whisky reviews

Although Yoichi is the best known part of the Nikka company, their second distillery, named Miyagikyo, is actually bigger. Malt whisky is produced there using eight stills. A Coffey Still was installed…

Pretty funny to read opinions on this Coleburn 1979 in the Rare Malts series. Everyone seems to think it’s not particularly good, but still most say it’s the best Coleburn ever bottled…Coleburn distil…

Quarter casks are small casks originally used to transport whisky on horseback. Nowadays it’s mostly associated with the Laphroaig expression. As these casks are smaller (around 125 litres), the whisky…

A couple of months (or years?) ago, Diageo dumped some of its premium whisky stock on the market. Suddenly € 600 bottles were available for € 200. One of them was this Glen Ord 30 years old, a limited…

The Wiser's whiskies are currently distilled at the Hiram Walker & Sons Distillery in Windsor, Ontario. Wiser's De Luxe is the most common, widespread, and 'standard' of the products in the Wiser's line…

In 2010 Malts of Scotland released two ‘standard’ bottlings, contrary to their regular range, which consists of single casks at cask strength. The first was the Glen First Class (say the name with a hot…

I'm not a fine nose and certainly not a fine palate neither. So instead of trying to figure out what I can't describe with the appropriate wording, I will just try to define what the whisky makes me…

First review so apologies in advance for the anti-climax! Far from an expert so I'll concentrate on the characteristics of the whisky that Im comfortable trying to get down..Nose; Wow! This is unrivalled…

Nose: Big smoke and strong peat. Good dose of sea salt and spice.Taste: Rich smokiness and peat. Salty seaweed and a very small hint of sweetnessFinish: Long and lingering.

Nose: sweet and peaty. I get vanilla, black licorice, some light florals, and a clean peat aroma than is more earthy than smoky. It has neither the ashy dryness of Laphroaig and Caol Ila nor the intense…