All Whisky reviews

When Fine Drams was offering world-wide free shipping last July I went to their website and did some browsing. When I searched “Cask Strength” this one came up and, being very reasonably priced, I hit…

Urban Distillery is a small craft distillery in Kelowna, BC. They've been offering whisky for a few years now, claiming it's Canada's 3rd (and BC's only) single malt.https://www.urbandistilleries.ca/s…

In February 2015 I read a “game-changing” review by @MaltActivist. I had tried the standard Benromach 10 a couple of years earlier (prior to the rebranding) and it was good, especially with milk choco…

The Scotch Malt Whisky Society – aka SMWS – has quite a few Bowmore bottlings on its curriculum as can be deduced from the number of this one. This 2014 release was nicknamed ‘Galleon Attacked by Pira…

So one of the benefits of living in London is that the number of bourbon nuts is still relatively small compared to the USA, and living in London I can get to the shops when limited releases first arrive…

This was a bottle from warehouse PN, Barrel No. 344D. So I first had this in the Groucho Club in London following a Small Batch and defintely preferred the bolder flavour profile of the Single Barrel…

This Bowmore, named after The Prestonfield House – a prestigious hotel in Edinburgh that was once run by Signatory owner Andrew Symington – was bottled for the French La Maison du Whisky. It is in fact…

Golden Cask is a series from House of MacDuff, a somewhat lesser known (to me) bottler. I previously tried a good Ardmore from owner John McDougal. This Bowmore may be 15 years old, the ABV is still a…

Poitin is a traditional Irish clear spirit that, when outlawed in 1661, meant that it was henceforth distilled illegally (and dangerously) by farmers, much like Kentucky moonshine. Although it was nor…

World Whisky Day and I’ve been deprived from whisky for 12 consecutive days, an eternity. Time to change all that, let’s delve into the sample collection and see what we can find. How about an old Glen…