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Aged in European Oak with a taste of dried fruits, ginger, orange and raisin. It's Macallan's attempt at providing a high priced non-aged single malt. It is a good Scotch, but doesn't warrant the high…

Markjedi1 send me multiple samples after I send him one myself, believe me he was very generous. When time came to pick one for reviewing, I couldn't pass on the opportunity to review one that haven't…

I've been on a bit of a hiatus of late. Brought on by writing too much about whisky and not enjoying it as much as I should. So I decided to take a little breather just to re-charge the old batteries a…

About five years ago at my clubs' monthly mystery tasting I decided to take with me a relatively unknown whisky. Well, unknown to most of us, that is.It was something I picked up on a whim without really…

Oh, no, not again? This is the so-called First Release, bottled in 2013, but in 2014 there was another bottling by Balblair named 1983 First Release. It is driving me crazy. Well, let us forget the…

There have already been two releases of the vintage 1999. They were both composed of the same type of casks (bourbon and sherry), but the first release was for Travel Retail in 1 liter bottles. Strangely…

Different sources state that there has been a release of Balblair 1990 in 1998, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2014 and 2015. The last three were all called ‘Second Release’. How can this be? While somebody…

The Highland distillery Balblair stopped bottling with an age statement years ago, but now uses vintages (thus mentioning the year of distillation). This Balblair 2005 was released in December 2015 as…

The first Willett distillery was established in Bardstown/Kentucky in 1936 by the Willett Distilling Company that was owned by the Willett family who had been based in Bardstown since the end of the 18th…

7 years 2 months 28 days in new oak sounds like a great start to a Booker's Bourbon. This batch was also the first tasting panel release of 2015.Sadly I do not agree with the panel's choices on this…