All Whisky reviews

This is the Flora and Fauna bottling from Diageo that I believe will be ceased, if it isn't already, in the not too distant future. Thankfully there are some bottles out there. It retails at c£50.This…

The Benromach 10 has earned it's place among many folks' cabinets, as a solid bang for your buck whisky but one with more dimensions that are used to seeing at this age. It has that rare chameleon qua…

Last Christmas I looked at my collection and it was mostly younger whiskies. 10 and 12 year olds and a few 15s. So I decided to add a couple of late teen whiskies to my collection and went for the Arran…

This new whisky is from a Newfoundland-based company which I just found out specializes in rum (go figure). A mixture of double-distilled corn and pot still barley malt, aged in refill, ex-bourbon, and…

The usual drill with my morning tastings is that everyone is asleep (or are out of the house) so I have a nice quiet environment so I can focus. While that is presently the case, I'm not as fully focused…

For the third release in our Antarctica Series, photographer Ilse Everaert allowed us to use a magnificent photo of Paradise Bay. But with these hot temperatures, we also wanted to offer something of a…

In 2016 I picked up some bottles of Blanton’s Gold that were popping in and out of stores for about a week, 2 for me and 2 for @paddockjudge (he would eventually be the recipient of my spare). My review…

Quite a while back (2016) I picked up some bottles of Blanton’s Gold that were briefly in and out of stores for about a week, 2 for me and 2 for @paddockjudge (he would eventually be the recipient of my…

Gruvguld is Swedish for ‘gold from the mine’, which is of course a reference to the Bodas mine in which Mackmyra matures here whisky – at a depth of 50 meters, by the way. It is a marriage of 3 types of…

Cloudberries are Sweden’s most sought after berries to make wine. This Moment release from Mackmyra – that was named Fjällmark – matured on those casks and then got a finish on sherry casks, both oloroso…