All Whisky reviews

Single malt whisky is a real chameleon. Its maturation time will greatly affect its final character. Malt whisky can be peated to a variety of ppm levels. It can be finished (or matured entirely) in a…

Collingwood Double Barrelled is the first release in their "Town Collection", which came out in the fall of 2017. It is primarily matured in used white oak barrels, then re-barrelled in heavily toasted…

Originally only available in Taiwan, the Canadian Rockies 21 year old is readily available in Canada since 2016. According to various sources I have read, the spirit is distilled and aged by Highwood…

My brother in law and I picked this up during one of our first whisky outings this trip to Calgary. It was discounted and one of my Connosr colleagues asked for a couple so @nosebleed bought one for us…

This special treat happens to be the very first Bushmills bottled by the Scotch Malt Whisky Society exclusively for the Canadian marketplace (it's not even on the SMWS UK site). Distilled on May 22 2002…

This Teeling single malt whiskey was released in 2016 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Easter Rising (an armed insurrection in Ireland during Easter week in April 1916). It was bottled as a…

This is a quick, off the cuff review, inspired by my first taste of a McClelland’s product. It is Dec. 25 in the evening here in Calgary. I am at a party at friends of my in-laws. My impression is they…

I rarely do reviews from a couple of drams but feel if ever an exception should be made this is one . . . I was at the in-laws for Christmas dinner today and my brother in law brought this little beauty…

Christmas… well, I don’t mind opening op something special for that. In this case, a malt from India! This is the Paul John Christmas Edition 2018 of which only 3.000 bottles were released. This Indian…

Nose: hints of fruit, some sweet berries, and cinnamon spice. Lots of buttery toffee. Taste: full-bodied and creamy on the tongue, becoming dry at the back of the mouth. The fruit is subdued, but the oak…