All Whisky reviews

This expression has recently arrived at the LCBO (I think it was previously available only in NY for some reason). With this one, the pot still is blended with "small-batch" grain whiskeys (with a higher…

GlenDronach 18 doesn’t get much love. Its 15 year old brother seems to be the brand’s poster child, and a benchmark to which the rest of the range gets compared. As the 18 year old is both more expensive…

Auchentoshan 1988 wine cask finish, 25yo..this whidky has spent 8 years in bourbon casks before " finished " in wine casks for 17, yes 17 years so hardly your normal finish, bottled at 47.6% ... To start…

Glendronach 18. Another big sherry bomb type whisky from the glendronach stable. This is matured in oloroso sherry casks and bottled at 46%.. Why can’t other distilleries take note ! imageNose.. It has…

Single malt from Pradlo distillery from 1989. Established in 1928, the distillery was nationalized in 1980’s under the communist rule. Without going into details, the malt was forgotten to cellars in…

On pouring, this boy is thick in the glass- almost syrupy as it gets a friendly swirl in my fave whisky tumbler. Bright pale honey coloured- like that jar of Gale's Honey in the cupboard.Nose is light…

I've used that title before, but now it's even more suitable. Hyde 10 year old No. 1 Presidents Cask is an Irish single malt, that gets its name after the first Irish President, Douglas Hyde. Not so long…

First and fore most, I must say, I'm a big Bunnahabhain fan. That being said, I already know I'm going to like this dram. The bottle has been opened for about six weeks and I poured half a teaspoon of…

At the very end of 2013 just before New Years Day, I was traveling home from family Christmas in Nashville Tennessee. It was just my wife and I, so we stopped at a liquor in Knoxville (which is on our…

Oban 14 YO is one of those whiskies we've talked about as a malt forward whisky here at Connosr. I suppose one could call it 'barley at the fore' as well, given that the barley is central in all things…