All Whisky reviews

This release in the Old Particular series from Douglas Laing is not a Speysider in disguise, but actually a single malt from the Speyside Distillery. It matured for 18 years on a refill butt, but judging…

If I’m not mistaken, Glashelder is a whisky club in Belgium. They joined forces with Liquid Art to bottle this 19 years old Speyside malt. It’s another one of those where the distillery is kept secret…

Anam na h-Alba means as much as ‘the soul of Scotland’ and is a German independent bottler, run by Tom Skowronek. Tom only bottles at cask strength and without chill filtration. This 17 years old ‘sec…

The German Sansibar bottled this ‘secret’ Speyside ‘Very Old Selection’ for the Dutch Whisky Association. As I understand it, it’s a blended malt, but all malts are from Speyside, obviously. No age…

In their ‘Lost Drams’ series, the Italian Valinch & Mallet released this Strathmill 1988 a few years back. At cask strength, as they are wont to do. It is only my 15th Strathmill, but that is no surpise…

Did you know that Strathmill only got that name in 1994? Before that, she was called Glenisla-Glenlivet named after the Isla river nearby. But two decades ago she was renamed Strathmill in honor of the…

Last September, the first edition of the Dutch Whisky Festival took place in Arnhem, where both new stuff but also (very) old stuff could be tasted. And obviously they also had a festival bottling. It…

Last year A.D. Rattray, independent bottler with HQ in Glasgow, released two sister casks from this Speysider: #100006 en #100007, both of them bourbon casks. I was able to secure a sample of the first…

Woohoo! Another new make. My list is becoming quite long. This new make is actually commercialised by Strathisla in 350ml bottles… or is it? The bottle clearly states ‘sample only, not for re-sale’.…

In their innovative series Blender’s Batch, Johnnie Walker launched this so-called Sweet Peat. Now, those who know me, know that peat and a heavy sweetness (for example from a very active cask) is not…