All Whisky reviews

Clynelish 1997... that in itself already sounds magical to my ears. I have been fortunate enough to have tried many Clynelish of that vintage and so far it has always been a party. The expectations for…

Seven years…that is how long it has been since I last tried the standard bottling of Clynelish. And since I have three sparring partners – all of them from Signatory by the way – I felt it was a good…

Believe it or not, this is the very first time that I taste a Kininvie single malt! I tried it first at the Antwerp Whisky & Spirits Festival and took home a sample. I was really pleasantly surprised …

The first thing you notice is the wonderfully shaped bottle which seems to have been taken from the set dressing of the famous Downton Abbey series. Very Art Deco, if you ask me. But let me add immedi…

This Distillery Edition is – contrary to what the name suggests – available in stores. It is bottled at 51%, which I find to be good news. In my book, Glenfiddich at drinking strength is usually a bit…

This NAS release by Glenfiddich – still one of the world’s bestselling malts – was released with the explanation that it was inspired on the so-called Straigth Malt from 1963. Let us not forget that the…

The late whisky writer Michael Jackson once described Glen Ord as 'perilously drinkable'. The distillery can be found on the Black Isle, which – contrary to what the name suggests – is not an island, but…

Well, this is a bit of an oldie. After all, Glen Mhor was closed in 1983 and demolished a few years later. On the former site, you will find a shopping center nowadays. I have only been able to try 4…

Ben Nevis is a distillery near Fort William at the foot of the mountain with the same name. It is, by the way, the highest mountain in the UK with its peak at 1344 meters. In my experience Ben Nevis can…

Longmorn – BenRiach’s direct neighbour, even their buildings actually touch – recently jumped on the bandwagon of premiumisation and has ‘re-invented’ itself. In other words, their standard bottlings…