All Whisky reviews

This is another one that you could only get your hands on by filling it yourself after your visit to the distillery. I got the bottle from my German friend Michael. It is a malt that matured for 9 years…

The third bottle I have open from Thompson Bros is this bottle of SRV5 (Station Road Vat #5). It is a blended malt, with the constituent malts being at least 8 years old. The Thompson Bros use a Solera…

I brought this bottle via ballot in feb this year for the very reasonable price of £45. In the photo it is the bottle on the right with a bird on the label (it is a capercaillie, which is a reference…

This review will be the first of 3 reviews of bottles from the Independent Bottler 'Thompson Bros'.For those curious about this indy bottler here is a blog piece: https://88bamboo.co/blogs/whisky-rum-gin…

Nose: Dark brown sugar melting in butter, waiting for some bananas to hit the pan. The pseudo bananas foster note is very strong for me. Candied sweet and spicy pecans. Crisp sea water is in the air.…

There are three whiskies that, in my humble opinion, show a nice waxiness and those are Clynelish, Deanston and Dailuaine. And of the latter, the latest release of Asta Morris is now in my glass, bottled…

A satisfactory dram.

A new Belgian bottler has emerged: The Roots. But Joren Nuyts, the sympathetic guy behind this new brand, will not limit himself to whisky. We can also expect other spirits, he told me. And he immedia…

Tom Haseldonckx, the man behind the cool webshop Buds & Barrels and one of the initiators of WHISKE – the whisky and spirits festival Kempenland in Belgium – has released a very unique bottling. This is…

The Milk & Honey Distillery from Tel Aviv, Israel, has just released four new releases in the so-called Art & Craft series. It concerns four releases of their malt that has matured on special beer casks…