All Whisky reviews

This Yamazaki Puncheon is almost legendary. Especially if you can believe the price evolution of this NAS whisky. When it was launched in 2013, the bottle cost around 125 EUR. Today you need to fork over…

Suntory Old is a popular whisky from Japan, which first appeared in the 1940s. It continued to lead the way until the 1980s when single malts began to grow in popularity and this fun blend lost its…

I have already killed a few bottles of the Taketsuru Pure Malt, because it was affordable (last bought in a French supermarket for 35 EUR, but unfortunately in the shop in my own country almost double…

Kami means god and Iki means breath. 'Breath of the Gods', in other words. Or something like that. The unfortunate thing about this whisky is that it is not really Japanese. But they are honest about it…

My very first Sullivans Cove! Founded in 1994 in Tasmania, the reputation in those early years was not exactly flattering, but in 1999 the distillery was placed under new administration, in 2004 the…

Amrut is no stranger, of course. I already tasted a lot of goodies from these guys from Bangalore, India. And last year I also met some people from the Malt Society Arabia, in Dubai. Now those guys have…

It was only in 2016 that the first cask at Bimber – just outside London – was filled. The Belgian whisky shop Top Malts hurried to bottle a cask especially for them as 'The Belgium Edition'. It was…

Big Machine Distillery is a relative newcomer to the whiskey world. This is their “core” offering. They also have a single barrel that I sampled but I think this one is better value. I picked this up…

This is my second review since getting shut down by COVID-19 in May. It’s only the third whisky I have tasted. The second was the entry level (40%ABV) 4-grain N7 from my previous review posted just…

This is my first review since getting shut down by COVID-19 in May. It’s only the second whisky I have tasted (I sipped 5 cc of a CS Wiser’s a couple last week to celebrate the return of my ability to…