All Whisky reviews

It's the last night before the first seder of Passover. For those of you who do not know, grains (or their spirits - with the exception of quinoa for some reason), are not considered Kosher for Pass…

I must confess, the last time I tasted a Balmenach was when I released my own Save Lars Whisky over a year ago. This youngling from 2008 is a vatting of one sherry and several bourbon casks and bottled…

Benrinnes is a whisky you don’t see very often. It is one of those anonymous work horses for Diageo that produces bulk malts for blends like Johnnie Walker, J&B, Crawfords and the like. There are just…

It has been rather quite at Dutch independent bottler Kintra. No releases in 2016 and only 4 in 2015 including this one. That has everything to do with the fact that they owner is currently working hard…

In 2009 Gordon & Macphail – the company that owns Benromach – was able to launch the first ever 10 Year Old of their own production. An important milestone, to be sure. Strangely enough, I did not do…

This Benromach may be only 5 years old, but I find it refreshing to have both an age statement and the possibility to buy this bottle at a fair price (around 35 EUR in my neck of the woods). It matured…

Through the grapevine I heard that this blended malt consists of Macallan, Highland Park and Glenrothes and might also have some Tamdhu and Glenturret in the mix. If that were the case, then this would…

Belgian importer The Nectar celebrates its 10th anniversary with the release of quite a few bottles (with a lovely label, I might add). This single cask of Ben Nevis is one of those.Won-der-ful nose on…

The number of single barrel releases of Balvenie 15 Year Old is vast, very vast. Too many too count. But as it is always a nice whisky, we try every bottle we come across. Today, that is barrel #5603,…

Nose: quite a lot of alcohol. Then vanilla bean and chocolate liqueur. Light and exceedingly sweet, almost artificially so. Taste: surprisingly, not super-sweet, actually rather dry. Light-bodied,…