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Erik Molenaar, owner of the independent bottler Kintra, selected this cask for his Single Cask Collection and bottled the very young Glen Moray at cask strength. Well, that is a bit of a weird nose. I…

The Glen Moray distillery lies somewhat hidden in the hills near Elgin. This Speysider – owned by the French company La Martiniquaise since 2008 – has quite a few expressions on the shelves, although the…

The older version of the Aberfeldy 21 Year Old was matured exclusively on bourbon casks, but this more recent release – from 2014 – has some sherry matured whisky in the mix. The nose is rather closed…

Aberfeldy, owned by Dewar's & Sons, can be found as a single malt for some time now, but produces primarily to provide enough Highland style malt for their famous White Label blended Scotch. In 2014,…

The name already reveals that this malt is peated. 40ppm is actually heavily peated. I wonder if this malt will live up to its name. But will you look at that color: pale beyond belief.The nose indeed…

AnCnoc is the name of the whisky produced by the Knockdhu distillery (the malt was not named Knockdhu to avoid confusion with Knockando). You can guess it: Knockdhu means black hill and thus this malt…

Yet another sample from @Wierdo (4/6). I'm regretting opening them all so soon now as I feel they will need finishing off fairly quickly before the air gets to them too much. It's a tough job, eh? …

Alright the next whisky in my exploration of Wine afflicted Bruichladdich whiskys, this samples was graciously sent by a lovely chap from Calgary.The vital statistics, this was part of Bruichladdich's…

Glengyle distillery is owned by the Mitchell family...who also own Springbank. Call it naiveté but that was enough to get me to buy a bottle. It's not cheap for a 12 Year Old, even by Ontario standards…

A ‘small-batch’, cask-strength, un-chillfiltered bourbon from Jim Beam. This is as close to tasting a bourbon from the cask as I’m likely to get, which is quite exciting, so here goes. Bottles been…