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Ballechin is the peated version (50ppm) of Edradour and gets its name from the former Ballechin Distillery (1810-1927) that used to be just a stone’s throw away from current Edradour. This cask was…

The period in which Edradour was jokingly called Edrasour is long past, luckily. Since Andrew Symington and his team took over in 2002, I have tried nothing but good stuff from this distillery in Pitl…

The Kylver Stone is an ancient grave stone from the 5th Century, found on the island Gotland – south of Sweden in the Baltic Sea. It is engraved with old Germanic runes. Those are also to be found on the…

The Wolfburn Morven is a lightly peated version of this Highlander from Thurso, that was launched in September 2017. It was the success of the small batch Wolfburn No 128 that inspired this one. Morven…

The Wolfburn No 128 is the first so-called ‘small batch’ (still 6000 bottles though). The name refers to the location of the maturing 100 liter casks from Woodford Reserve: warehouse 1, stow 28. The…

In Thurso, a town with only 9000 inhabitants in the north of Scotland, the Wolfburn Distillery filled its very first cask with spirit in 2013, meaning that the first single malt appeared in 2016. After…

Bottle bought on internet and shared with a friend over many nice conversations and tastings.It pours clean and shiny; color is golden to amber. Aroma is not so strong, rather nuanced: pine cone, pine…

This bottling, launched at the end of 2017, is the third of five annual "local barley" releases announced by Springbank in 2016. It comes after the first release, a 16-year old, and the second release…

Tasted at the now-extinct Sudestada restaurant in Madrid. Dark amber hue with golden shades. Intense aroma starts sweetish: butterscotch, vanilla, custard; then sandalwood, pencil lead, smokey. Nose is…

After @Mackstine review of Chita got the conversation going I thought it would be interesting to post my notes on this whisky here.Suntory's Hakushu is the less hyped, less in demand younger brother to…