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And who exactly is Old Grand-Dad? Why, he is Basil Hayden, of course, who made bourbon with a higher percentage of rye than most mash bills at the time. His grandson, Colonel R. B. Hayden, started the…

I found this bottle at the very cozy Whisky on a Sunday event in Ghent. I had not seen it before and hence not yet tried it. It was still a third full so I convinced the owner to sell it to me. It was…

Another dumpy bottle from Signatory, but even older than the one I tried before. This was distilled in 1978 and has been sitting in the bottle since 1996 – that’s 20 years, meaning it has spent more time…

Asta Morris, the company run by Bert Bruyneel - or Crazy Bert as I affectionately call him - has finally seen the light and bottled a cask of Auchentoshan. The bulk of the 210 bottles that the single…

Just like the Blood Oak, this Noble Oak was meant for the travel retail market, but that is not where I got it. It is the successor, so the speak, of the Silveroak, which was released as a vintage 1991…

OK, this is a bit special. I got this sample from Luc Timmermans, somewhere in 2010. Luc was the importer of Malts of Scotland for Belgium at the time. It is very well possible that by now it has already…

Next to the Old Particular range, Douglas Laing also releases exceptional and old casks in their so called XOP-range. XOP is the acronym for Extra Old Particular. I previously tried an fantastic Littl…

After the Bowmore and Glen Scotia, the Flemish bottler The Whiskyman now brings us a new ‘rock whisky’. This time it is a nod to the ‘Cold Hearted Man’ by AC/DC, but what interests me more is the fact…

This is the first Auchentoshan bottled by the German indie Maltbarn. The Lowlander was distilled in 1992. It matured for the full 23 years on a bourbon cask, which then yielded 134 bottles at cask str…

I tried a single cask Auchentoshan from the German bottler Anam na h-Alba (meaning ‘the soul of Scotland) before and thought it was magnificent. That was a refill sherry hogshead. Now comes along a…