All Whisky reviews

Strangely enough it took quite some doing to get this bottle to me, but in the end we found it… in a Belgian shop. Weird, as this is supposed to be a limited edition for Global Travel Retail. Anyway, it…

Cadenhead only just launched their new Auchentoshan, a great 23 Year Old from 1992, but we still have the previous release to taste, which was launched in January 2015. This 15 Year Old Auchentoshan from…

No less than 2.880 bottles were filled from this sherry cask. Milroy’s of Soho limited itself to bottling miniature. For those who are not familiar with Milroy’s: it is one of London’s well-known whisky…

It was not even six months ago that I tried a botttle of Auchentoshan 1998 from Pearls of Scotland and lo and behold, today a sister cask is dropped on my desk. This one is bottled at 60,5% ABV, slightly…

It took a bit of research to find out that Signatory Vintage bottled this Auchentoshan 1981 only in miniature bottles. Strange choice, no? Anyway, this Auchentoshan was distilled on 19th March 1981 (I…

Distiller's Art is a new series by Langside Distillers (which is part of Hunter Laing), which releases single cask bottlings. So far there have been an Allt-a-Bhainne, Blair Athol, Braeval, Clynelish,…

Glenturret is not exactly a well-known malt, even though you can easily get it. But when I say Famous Grouse, that will surely ring a bell. This famous blend has its home base at Glenturret. When you…

This 18 Year Old Glenturret was already bottled in 1990, meaning it is a distillate of the late ‘70s – of last century, obviously.The nose starts off pleasant enough with sweet malt, apples and oranges…

The official 10 Year Old was just fine. Let us see if the 12 Year Old, bottled way back in 1996, does any better.Apple juice, orange juice and sweet malt. That is the essence of this very simple nose.…

I say this in all my Glenfiddich reviews: It is the most consistently above average single malt today that is produced at such staggering volumes.I'm pretty sure this is what happens when a business is…