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My friend Peter visited the distillery last February and was kind enough to bring me a bottle of the current cask that is available in the ‘Bottle Your Own’ program. It is quite a young Auchentoshan,…

The Italian bottler Silver Seal have bottled their very first Auchentoshan last year. It was released under the banner ‘Whisky is Art’, which explains the exuberant label. It is a single cask with a very…

Hart Brothers clearly has quite some casks of Auchentoshan 1999 in their warehouses. I previously tasted an 11 Year Old, 13 Year Old and 16 Year Old, all bottled at a drinking strength of 46%. This 14…

Knowing that there are no casks from 1970 left at the distillery, this is probably the only way for me to enjoy an Auchentoshan from my year of birth. So I am going to sit down and take my time for this…

A little over two years ago I tried sister cask #5613, of which bottle 90/100 sits in the Toshan Man collection. I even made a Whisky Rambling on video about it, because it is such a grand whisky. I was…

Highland Laird is a fairly new series from Bartel Rawlings International, the British independent bottler with their HQ in Oxted, some 30 kilometers sout of London. To be honest, until recently I had not…

The sole entry I have on my list for Lochside, is coincidentally also the highest grosing. In the two years that followed since, I have never tasted a better whisky. But as we all know, you can’t judge…

This whisky, a 25 year old 100% rye whisky, is undoubtedly one of the most unique bottlings in the modern era of whisky. It was bottled in 2006, from distillate at least 25 years old at one of the for…

I drank this whisky for the first time with Mr Bob Dalgarno, Macallans' famed whisky maker, when my whisky club hosted him not too long ago. He was a wonderful and pleasant guest and the whiskies weren't…

Booker's C06-K-8 130.4 proof 6yrs 0moAlmost four years ago I purchased a bottle of bookers as a house (and throat) warming gift for a neighbor. It was the first bottle of bookers I'd ever bought. We…