All Whisky reviews

The reviewed sample is from a bottle one year opened owned by @Pudge72. Thanks, PudgeNose: pungent acrid peat with some accompanying smoke, notes of rubber, with citrus in the background. This is bitter…

Bottle from Scotch whisky auctions. Pours a clear light golden honey. Nose is dried fruits dipped in toffee, vanilla, mild coffee and oak. Finish is a woody oak with a lovely toffee linger.

Rosebank, the sleeping beauty of the lowlands. Although I must admit, at the rate that her buildings are crumbling away, no prince on a white horse will kiss her back to life. Luckily she left us a rich…

There's nothing I can tell you about Glenfiddich that you already don't know. It is unquestionably the most popular single malt whisky in the world. They are by and large one of the most consistently…

I remember tasting my first Balcones. It was the Brimstone Resurrection. Quite possibly the most fiery and powerful whisky one can have. Massively smoked and audaciously spicy it was a no-holds barred…

Light golden color. Very sweet vanilla-honey aromas. Rich creamy texture with notes of sweet malty cinnamon, pepper and ginger. Muddled sweet-spice finish. I don’t really sense the chocolate or raspberry…

Dram 242 is a Belgian whisky shop, run by Dirk Verleysen. In 2014 they bottled a 12 Year Old Mortlach, only 77 bottles strong, shared with the German Maltbarn.Ha! This Mortlach is immediately in your…

This Mortlach can only be obtained in the shop in Elgin. It was bottled at 50% ABV and comes from one sherry cask that yielded a total of 282 bottles. It will set you back 130 quid, but then the stuff…

Laphroig has celebrated the 200th anniversary with a series of 6 releases, the last to be released was this 32yo expression. The whisky has been fully matured in first fill Oloroso sherry casks for the…

The absolutely top notch malts from Douglas Laing are bottled in their XOP – Extra Old Particular – range. This Mortlach 1992 slept 22 long years on a sherry butt that still yielded 225 bottles at a cask…