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The boys and girls of the Scotch Malt Whisky Society always give their bottlings funny names during their tasting panels. This Glen Elgin from 1999 was dubbed 'A toy shop in an orange grove'. Well, I am…

In the heart of Speyside, some 3 kilometers from the village of Elgin, you’ll find the Glen Elgin Distillery that today produces mostly for the White Horse blend. There are a couple of official bottlings…

For the 150th birthday of Canada, I'm going back to a sure value among Canadian whisky: Wiser's Legacy. But It would not be useful to write another review of this well known whisky if this bottle was…

Springbank 12 Cask strength, Batch 14, bottled in January 2017 at 54.2%Mull of Kintyre, oh mist rolling in from the sea, My desire is always to be here, Oh Mull of KintyreOk, so Springbank of Campbe…

A very special review for a very special day. As Canada celebrates its 150th birthday I thought I would celebrate with my 100th review and of course it HAD to be a Canadian whisky.This whisky was rel…

The final whisky in this series of reviews celebrating Canada's 150th birthday couldn't be more fitting. This 15 year old Gooderham & Worts was bottled to celebrate Canada's 100th birthday in 1967! How…

For my penultimate review in this series, I turn to a recent bottling for the sesquicentennial. To celebrate Canada's 150th Anniversary, Wiser's released this limited edition of 7,827 numbered bottles…

WhistlePig is a distillery based in Vermont that, before they started making their own whisky, bottled 100% Canadian rye from Alberta Distillers. Otherwise, to be honest, I don't know much about Whist…

It had been quite a while since Erik Molenaar – owner of Kintra – had released a whisky. A lot has to do with the fact that he is very busy with his Wagging Finger distillery, with which he is currently…

The days that peated whisky was solely produced on Islay are long gone (actually, they never existed). Quite a few distilleries like to experiment with pated malt, including Glenturret. This is their…