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Sukhinder Singh, the man behind the famous London retailer The Whisky Exchange, also founded the independent bottler Specialty Drinks Ltd. You know them well, for they are the company that came up with…

Signet is a mixture of different types of malt. It uses some 20% of ‘chocolate malt’ (normally used to produce stout beer) and roasted barley which is dried at a higher temperature and roasted to a…

Nose: Oak, citrus, dark suger, caramel and candy sweetsTaste: Lively and spicy. citrus and lemon, bubbly and butter. Some fudge. Light summer flowers and at the same time malt and soil. Summary: A really…

Nose: Lots of nose, oak and harsh wood. Of course vanilla, nuts and sherry.Taste: Again, harsh, wood, strong and bold. Bubbly and lovely.Summary: Lots of character, peppery, very nice balance. Light and…

Long nosing experience. First at little bit "spirity" in the nose, but then the bouquet changes to a sweet, buttery aroma (almost rancid - no, I mean this in a positive sense). After a few minutes,…

The German independent bottler Malts of Scotland has released quite a few jewels already. Of all the MoS-bottles I've tasted so far, I've only had two that didn't take me to cloud nine. Quite a track…

This malt is to me a easy drinkable whisky. It's sweet, smooth. I tasted the sherrycasks where in it matures. It is the only highland in my cabinet, but it's a good one. I certainly wil try more older…

Nose: Well, at first not much at all, so much so that one has check that the glass isn't on mute. However after some persistence and a bit of patience, finally some aubergine and cooked courgette come…

A.D. Rattray (previously Dewar Rattray, but they had to change their name to avoid confusion with that other Dewar) is an independent bottler that recently launched a whole new range in Belgium. One of…

Every self-respecting whisky festival, just like the one in Milan, Italy, has its own festival bottle. In 2008, the Milano Whisky Festival presented a young Caol Ila of 12 years, distilled in August 1996…