All Whisky reviews

Some writers have made the bold claim that perhaps much of the beloved Sherry influence from pre-90's whisky may very well have come from the use of Paxarette. The now demonized additive was quite common…

Sample sent to me. I was expecting peat from the name and bottling art.But it's peat free.Nose: Big big fruity, apricot, toffee apple, candle wax, Christmas cake, raisin, fig, medjool date, green cut…

I tasted some Irish stuff from The Whistler before, but was recently given a sample of this 10 years old by my buddy Manny. The label boldly states ‘How The Years Whistle By’. A bit odd, considering that…

Rolf Kaspar is a German independent bottler that has quite a bit of Irish whiskey on its resume, bottled primarily in collaboration with the Hotel Essener Hof. This one, however, was bottled in honor of…

Mark Reynier goes further (or is that less far?) than Single Farm Origin. This Gaia, the first in the so-called Arcadian Series, is distilled from barley sourced at different farms. That undoubtedly…

The first release of Bannow Island matured for three years, seven months and 27 days. This one matured a little longer on the cask, namely three years, 10 months and 23 days. You can find all this inf…

The Flemish whisky shops Prima Vinum and Dram 242 worked together to get this single cask from Teeling – a rum cask no less – bottled. It’s becoming almost embarrassing to admit, but again it was my…

Only 300 bottles of this 18 years old Teeling have been released. It is a single cask. The malt from Teeling received a finish on a marsala cask. I predict that this will be very good. It was bottled in…

This 4th Brabazon release is also the last in the series. It was finished on Carcavelos White Port. Excuse me? Carcavelos may be a fortified white wine – like a white port – but since it is not produced…

I guess it was only a matter of time before the Irish Teeling distillery also released a peaty whiskey. I confess, I wasn't waiting on it. On the other hand I was a bit curious. This whiskey does have…