All Whisky reviews

I tasted the Laphroaig Four Oak a few years ago and remember not being really devastated at the time. Now my buddy Pat puts a sample of a recent bottling in my hands, so I think it would be good to give…

Okay... an Islay whisky that gets a red handbag on the label and is therefore called Red Bag. Nuff said, right? Come on: mix up the letters and you'll know where it comes from. However, I would call it…

Lovers of Big Peat are legion. Collectors too, and they may gradually get gray hair, because there are now so many (regional) editions that it is hard to keep up. Invariably, Douglas Laing also launches…

South Shore is the pseudonym used by Valinch & Mallet for Lagavulin. And this youngster is special because it matured on a Rum barrel from Caroni. It was launched in 2021 in the so-called Peat(y)full…

The Lagavulin 16 is such a quintessential malt that everyone should have in their bar cabinet. I already tasted several batches. Today there is one from 2021 in the glass, thanks to my good friend Pat…

When I first tasted the Lagavulin 8 Year Old in 2016, it was still a limited edition to celebrate the distillery's 200th anniversary, but today it's just part of the core range. Thanks to my buddy Pat…

Nose: subtle, yet still assertive. Butterscotch, tobacco leaf, and wet stone. A slight pungency beneath. Becomes herbal with time; dill, and is that rosemary? Taste: medium-bodied and smooth at first…

I'm a fan of all things Laphroaig. I don't think that's a secret. For my 200th Connosr review, I felt it appropriate to review this one. Laphroaig 10 is a perennial favourite. I find it to be simultan…

For our fourth and final release in the Mythical Series, Manny and I selected a sherry cask that was filled with spirit on Islay by a distillery whose name we are not allowed to reveal, but whoever…

Hurrah! Asta Morris has just launched a new whisky in the Heritage reeks, the one with the blue labels, specially reserved for beautiful single casks at a certain age. And this time it's a 24-year-old…