All Whisky reviews

I've got a couple of twitter buddies from the Holyland who, knowing that I'm into the sweeter drams, suggested this one to me. They've not steered me wrong yet so I decided to listen to their suggestion…

Nose starts off absent, after a drop of water or much aeration it becomes eye-wateringly sharp and hot. Medium body, copper coloured. Starts with the oak and sweet port flavours on the tip of the tongue…

Sweet candy-like nose, but otherwise very muted. Colour is bright sunlight with a medium body. Flavour is all iodine, tannin and peat.

Wow, what a fantastic powerful malt. In 2006 Array bottled a limited edition of the Lepanto PX brandy cask finish. Mine is the bottle 462 of 759. It is cask strength with 61.3% alcohol, matured for many…

Smoke and peat and sea salt. Warm and encompassing - and that's just the initial hit of the nose. Behind that, there are hints of sweetness - particularly chocolate - and a dash of fruitiness. A genui…

Just opened up a new bottle: the Highlander Oban 14 year old. Not much of an elegant bottle, but a special label to say the least. The aroma is very pleasant aroma, with notes of chardonnay and a whiff…

'Though the finish of the standard Glenmorangie 10y didn't quite meet my expectations, its initial aroma more than tickled my senses.This kept me from losing interest in the brand, and when I came across…

Nose of iodine, seaweed and gooseberry. Light-ish body with colour between Fino Sherry and Chardonnay with spicy oak and tannins and dark malt flavours on the finish.

Nose of sweet plum, barbados cherry and cwithmuth puddin'. Full bodied, and burnished gold in colour. Soft spiciness at the start with a warming finish with the flavours of earth, and turfiness.

I tried some Islay whiskies when I first got into malts and I'm not embarrassed to admit I found them a little aggressive on the peat. Whilst Ardbeg wasn't one of them, I mention it because I recently…