All Whisky reviews

While this is already batch 4 of the Kilkerran Cask Strength, it is the first I ever try. It matured on re-charred oloroso hogshead, which explains the color. And it is bottled at 57.1% ABV, they could…

I guess we know Claxton’s best for their single cask releases in those typical square ‘perfume’ bottles. But this is something special. In their so-called Exploration Series they released this young…

Campbeltown Harbour is a NAS-expression from the Glen Scotia distillery, matured on first fill bourbon casks – which explains the color. My dear friend Nadine offered me the sample.The nose is very…

I guess it was only a matter of time before a single cask for Belgium would be bottled. This former rum cask was filled with spirit on 30th July 2017 and bottled at 55% on 2nd August 2020, so just three…

For the Apex White Wine Tomer Goren, the Master Distiller at the Milk & Honey Distillery from Tel Aviv got to work with casks that previously held Israeli Chardonnay.The nose is quite different. I’m…

Apex means peak or pinnacle, with which Milk & Honey’s Master Distiller Tomer Goren wants to point out that this is up there with the best of what he has created so far. There are four expressions at…

Israel is not really top of mind when thinking about red wine. We first think of France and Italy, right? But the Israeli climate is such that they too make beautiful red wines, it seems. Barkan or…

This peated expression in the Element trilogy from Milk & Honey was not made from peated barley. It is in fact their Classic of which a part (41%) was matured on former Islay casks, married with (59%)…

Milk & Honey launched the Elements Trilogy in 2020. The first one I’ll try is the Sherry which – as the name suggests – matured on oloroso and PX casks, while a part of bourbon matured malt was also…

This is the flagship of the Israeli distillery, as the name suggests. It matured on a combination of casks: former bourbon casks and so-called red wine STR casks. STR is short for ‘shaved, toasted & re…