All Whisky reviews

Ah, Littlemill, always fun. It is also one of the few distilleries of which you can be absolutely sure that the bottles will rise in value. Stocks are still being bottled, but they sell so fast that you…

Littlemill recently released a new official 27 Year Old. It was dubbed Private Cellar Edition and comes in a beautiful chest with a miniature and a piece of stave. Pricetag: £2.250. Now, even though the…

The yearly Distillers Edition from Diageo is a speciale release of their malts, in which the whisky has been double matured. For Glenkinchie, this was a maturation on bourbon casks, before a second…

It had already been 8 years since I last tried the Glenkinchie 12. That may seems like a very long time (well, it is…), but that has everything to do with the fact that this malt does not have a very…

Bladnoch, near Wigtown in the Lowlands, has a bit of a rough recent history. The Irishman Raymond Armstrong reopened it in 2000 but had to close it in 2014 – on the court’s order – after a dispute with…

Blackadder, the label from the foulmouthed but very funny Robin Tucek, already has some Auchentoshan on its resume. No less than 7 releases already in their Raw Cask series, which is known for the cask…

This was one of the first Auchentoshan I ever tried and I must admit that I found it a little too hot to handle at the time and thus did not really appreciate it. But that was many, many years ago. And…

Malts of Scotland has bottled quite a few beautiful Auchentoshan – and also one ugly monster, but let’s not go there – so I was pleasantly surprised when they announced this Toshan from 2000 early this…

In the 1980s, Auchentoshan offered a beautiful crystal decanter for sale exclusively on the Queen Elizabeth II – QE2 for short – the luxurious cruise ship that now is anchored somewhere in Dubai waiting…

In 2016, Auchentoshan organized the New Malt Order, a worldwide bartender’s competition. The 12 winners (from the US, UK, Germany, Canada and Sweden) were then invited to visit Rachel Barrie – then…