All Whisky reviews

Caperdonich distillery is located at the northern end of Moraytown Village in Rothes and was founded in 1897 as “Glen Grant #2” by J. & J. Grant, the same people that had also built Glen Grant distillery…

In 2018 Lagavulin launched for the third festival an a row and 18 Year Old (for Feis Ile 2019 it was a 19 years old and I presume that trend will continue). I had to admit that those Feis Ile release,…

The Peat Faerie is a blended malt from the famous Scotch Malt Whisky Society. This 7 years old is the fourth batch and was discovered by their tasting panel during the concoction of the previous batch…

With a recent review of the HP Valknut (which until recently I thought was a made up parody name), I was inspired to dig into my samples for another NAS Viking themed HP to review.I was lucky enough to…

My second bottle of this 12 year old OB and whilst I didn't rate that last bottle here, I enjoyed it immensely and would have rated it high 80s ( I think I drank it, with the help of my Mum, in under a…

I know this will review will be tagged as July 2, but it’s still July 1 in Toronto. I just got back from a quick trip to Calgary to celebrate the upcoming 40th anniversary of my wife arriving in Canada…

This whisky may seem a bit anti-climactic, since earlier today I looked at Lot 40 CS 11yo and CC41. But this one is interesting - a 375ml of Gibson's Sterling I bought at auction (with a 1971 Gibson's…

First off, I screwed up - looks like I only have six 2018 Canadian releases to review, not seven as the previous titles of my reviews indicated. I have no idea where I screwed up there (maybe I missed…

2017's Lot No. 40 Cask Strength was a 12 Year Old; this year they've dropped it to 11. Only 4020 bottles were produced.The colour is a deep copper. Slightly metallic on the nose with mint, heather, dates…

This brand new Kilchoman matured on STR casks. STR is short for ‘shaved, toasted, re-charred’, so that gives you an idea what happened to the casks. After 7 years of maturation no less than 14.500 bot…