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This whisky was a gift from my wife, but I’ll attempt to be objective nonetheless. Depending on which online source you trust, this young Bowmore is anywhere from 3 to 7 years old. There are a lot of…

To those of a similar vintage to me you may remember the character Man-E-faces from He Man. This whisky makes me think of him as it is such a changeable one and is so hard to pin down. Like @wierdo…

Nose: a sweet, heady aroma. Baked goods, apple pie with cinnamon. Deeper down, oak char.Taste: big, full-bodied flavour starting with apple skin, moving into sweet spices and then the oak char, before…

This is the last dram of a bottle I gave to Pam for her birthday last year. Actually, it was the second bottle I bought; I left the first bottle in the trunk of my car on a hot August day (I didn't want…

Robbie Burns Day came and went two days ago, and I didn't even have time to write a review. For shame. However, I'm thrilled to be able to have some time today (scotch only, of course cuz I'm gonna…

I've had a challenging time with this whisky. I decided quite early on I would review it for the site. But then every time I thought I had the flavour profile nailed down I would go back to it a few days…

Nose: The nose is predominantly iodine, tar, vanilla, and smoke. After a few minutes you pick up the sherry, but it's very faint. It adds just a slight sweetness because there's really no way to mask the…

This hand-filled bottle was drawn directly from the cask at the distillery on April 12th, 2016. Distilled in 1998. Ex-Sherry Butt cask # 700039. Bottle # 212. While this is an exquisite dram, it is not…

Douglas Laing & Co has announced last month they are adding an old and rare limited edition trilogy collection to their Big Peat range, The debut of which is this 25 Years Old Islay “Vatted” Blended …

Distilled July 2005. Bottled at cask strength in August 2015. Cask #10. 235 bottles. From Single Cask Nation, I do not know why this heavily peated expression is not labeled as Ledaig, but no matter what…