All Whisky reviews

It is not an easy feat to find this edition of the Auchentoshan Bartender’s Malt, for it was only launched in Russia – a very import grow market for the brand – and is actually single sherry butt #134…

I felt the first Bartender’s Malt was somewhat mediocre and should be seen only as a malt to be used in cocktails. Last year the second edition finally arrived, again the result of a so-called New Malt…

Auchentoshan has a love affair with red wine casks from the Bordeaux region. Proof is this single cask from which you could bottle your own at the end of 2018. I first tried it at the Whisky Fair in…

One of the joys in my life is collecting and tasting the distillery casks that Auchentoshan offers at the end of the tour. These ‘bottle your own’ are excellent casks, all of them, and this is one that…

Eiling Lim – aka Mrs Luc Timmersmans – is a rising star among independent bottlers. In 2015 she released a 23 Year Old Auchentoshan from the very good vintage 1992, but before I noticed it was around,…

One of my friends had the luck to attend the impressive whisky school at Springbank. This, of course, also meant he took part in a warehouse tour where they have a lot more cask slumbering away than…

Now that is a Golden Oldie from my beloved Lowlander. Distilled in 1974 – I was four! – and bottled in the year I turned 21. It was the 5th single cask of Auchentoshan bottled by the Scotch Malt Whisky…

First Cask has bottled quite a few Auchentoshan already, including 6 sister casks from 1981. This is cask #1159, which I discovered on the table at The Whisky Mercenary’s booth at the recent whisky…

The Warehouse Range from German bottler Malts of Scotland always bottles lovely, special and very high quality single casks. It makes me happy that they found this beautiful Auchentoshan, despite its…

At the end of the 1980s my beloved Auchentoshan bottled this 10 Year Old for Scottish Power. It was given out as a gift to their employees, with a matching decanter. The contents, however, is their…