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Independent bottler Adelphi – which also owns the fairly new Ardnamurchan distillery – likes to bottle single casks at cask strength. This is one of those, from the Beast of Dufftown. This Mortlach 1987…

Gordon & Macphail – one of the leading bottlers of Scotland – has a huge stock of Mortlach casks. They started filling them very early on. Remember the Mortlach 70 Year Old that appeared in their Gene…

The new 20 Year Old is dubbed Cowie’s Blue Seal, which is a reference to one of the former owners, who later became mayor of Dufftown and left the distillery to his son.Wonderfully aromatic nose on old…

This 16 Year Old – dubbed the Distiller’s Dram – should make us forget the 16 years old from the Flora & Fauna series. That will not be easy, as that was a top dram. This new one is likewise matured on…

For years Mortlach was only available as a 16 Year old in the Flora & Fauna series, but in 2015 Diageo decided to ‘premiumise’ the brand. It was replaced by a NAS (Rare Old), and 18 and 25 years old, but…

The Hazelburn marquee doesn't get the same amount of love as it's other two siblings, it is definitely a different style not as immediate as the heavily peated Longrow or the industrial wonder Springbank…

Single Cask offerings are fun. It's a high risk, high reward proposition. It's interesting how different the tasting notes and scores are. I've seen this particular whisky scored between 82 and 90 points…

This one has been in my cabinet for a few years now, thankfully I bought it just before the LCBO boosted the price up to the current $80. I bring this up because I feel like the place it held in my…

SMWS 51.12 "Pastries & Sweet Treats" Bushmills Distillery 15yrs old Distilled 22nd May 2002 58.9% ABVI’ve doubled down on tackling my sample box of late, I’ve had success by putting my sessions together…

Warning: mini-rant aheadWith Scotch whisky enjoying a global surge of popularity, companies are doing everything they can to cash in now. Of course, they can't go back in time to make more whisky, so…