All Whisky reviews

As the title says, i find it like lemon butter sponge cake on the nose, but then on the palate seems dry and nutty and the barley comes through.

Nose: Quite somber with a hefty amount of oak, wood lacquer , pepper and spice, there’s also some dark honey note, as well as conserved lemon, a hint of tobacco leaf and very weak distant note of smoke…

Nose: Cereal, fruit salad, vanilla, citrus, peach. Very inviting.Palate: Herbaceous, vinous (Riesling and Chardonnay), syrupy orchard fruit, biscuit, fresh orange blossom.Finish: Sultana, citrus, malt…

Packed with orchard fruit, custard cream and cinnamon spice.

I mentioned Mackmyra's Säsongswhisky (seasonal whisky) range before and tasted the most recent one - Skördetid - just the other day. But as luck would have it, a sample of an older bottling arrived in…

The ‘Moment’ range by Mackmyra already has about 25 different releases. This Kôrsbär – which simply means ‘cherries’ and refers to the finish on cherry wine casks – is the most recent, added in the…

The Swedisch Mackmyra has quite a few gems in her Säsongswhisky (seasonal whisky) range already, with names like Iskristall, Blomstertid, Midnattssol, Midvinter, Sommartid, Vinterdröm and Vinterrök. In…

This is an older, official bottling from Mortlach, released in 2004. If you can find it today, you will have to cough up some 1.200 to 1.600 EUR to add it to your cabinet. Hence I am happy to say that…

Today’s official Mortlach 25 Year Old will set you back about 600 to 800 EUR for 50cl. Luckily the independent bottlers have not lost their mind (yet) and therefor you can buy this bottle – if you can…

Jonny is a whiskybuddy that I met several months ago at a tasting that I hosted in Antwerp. Since then, we have exchanged a couple of drams. But when Jonny presented me with ‘his’ Mortlach, I gladly…