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Recently, The Barrel Baron – Dutch independent bottler Marcel Kip – surprised us with two sister casks from Campbeltown, Cask 88 and Cask 88A. The spirit was distilled in 2014 at an unnamed Campbeltown…

I think you can safely say that I am a fan of Nc'nean. I've tasted the first ten batches and it's become a bit of a daily sipper. So accessible and pleasantly priced that I can drink it daily without any…

Spicy warm oily arrival develops a thick citrus and rye spiced loaded middle with a rich complex earthy fast flowing finish.

Mellow spicy warm citrus vanilla loaded arrival, developing sweet carmel heavy middle flowing to a soft rubbery fast finish.

BYOB-C, or 'biopsy' or Bring Your Own Bottle Club, recently launched two releases that belong together, given that the labels form a beautiful whole. Anarchy of the Lads, it says on the labels. One…

The girls and boys of BYOB-C, or 'biopsy' or Bring Your Own Bottle Club, have released special twins under the name Anarchy of the Lads. One bottle contains a 10-year-old Royal Brackla on sherry, the…

Eagle Rare 10 year is now a single barrel offering; I think that's a recent thing but I could be wrong. It's also a bourbon that causes mass panic and FOMO-inspired rage among Ontario bourbon customers…

A non-chill-filtered, non-carbon filtered Jim Beam offering at 100 proof for $44 CAD? Count me in. I tend to like the Jim Beam profile (i.e. roasted peanuts and caramel popcorn) so I bought this one…

At the end of the last decade I finally started taking more of an interest in Canadian whisky. I’d previously lacked enthusiasm for it. Many expressions, even the “good ones”, were bottled at low ABV…

This review is of a dram from my own bottle I've had open about 3 months. The cask mix of batch 19 is 70% bourbon 30% Sherry (Springbank 12 used to originally be much more sherry cask forward).Nose (neat…