All Whisky reviews

In September 2021 I was – for the second time – a guest at the whisky festival in sun-drenched Toulouse. One of the booths represented Starward (with a 'd' at the back, not to be confused with my fav…

If Corby, J.P. Wiser's, Forty Creek et. al. have led the charge of the Canadian whisky renaissance, Collingwood whisky has been slow to join the fray. Finding clear answers as to the makeup of Colling…

Every once in a while, the owner of the best local shop in town will post in our local whiskey group about something he gets in that he thinks is especially good. The other week he posted this 8 year old…

Here we have a sourced Irish blend. I can already hear you yawning! But wait, there's more. This one is 46%, natural colour and unchillfiltered. It contains grain whiskey, unpeated malt and peated malt…

An OB 10 year old from Laphroaig finished in 'sherry oak'. I think it is also not chill-filtered and without e150a - a cause for celebration, some might say. I'll admit to being more in the Ardbeg camp…

I've always been a bit of a Ledaig fan boy and have usually loved what I've had, especially the Amontillado cask one ... wowzers! The 18 was OK but I think bourbon (or a certain type of sherry ;) gen…

I had the privilege of tasting this from Marcel in November last year. Not that he needed my opinion to decide whether or not to bottle it. This whisky speaks for itself from the first to the last drop…

Kudos to Belgian bottler Klubb23 who took the initiative to convince Wolfburn to release a bottling in favor of humanitarian actions for Ukraine. And although Wolfburn opened up the initiative further…

Wolfburn's first casks were filled for maturation in January 2013 and the first Manager's Cask followed not much later. This is one of Wolfburn's oldest sherry butts on which oloroso sherry had previo…

For the 15th anniversary of Belgian importer The Nectar, a lot of special bottlings were released and this is one of them, namely a quarter cask from Wolfburn that yielded 168 bottles at cask strength…