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The best way to describe Glen Mhor is as an Invernessian experiment to see how well Cairngorms’ peat mixes with Nessie’s bath water. The distillery may have been demolished a long time ago, from time to…

Aka. The whisky equivalent of Glühwein (that’s mulled wine to all you Anglophones). After owning a few Glenfarclas 105s over the years, I thought it was about time that I bloody well wrote a review about…

The best way to describe Glen Mhor is as an Invernessian experiment to see how well Cairngorms’ peat mixes with Nessie’s bath water. The distillery may have been demolished a long time ago, from time to…

The only one, I've tasted of the Valhalla Collection. Freya is a 15YO single malt, named after the Norse Goddess of Love. Might as well be Imperator Furiosa (played by Charlize Theron) from Mad Max: Fury…

Bennachie is the name of a mountain range in Scotland, but also of a (no longer operational) independent bottler. They used to have their own ‘pure malts’ on the market (a 10 and 17 year old), but from…

After the peated Bruichladdich and the bourbon-matured Auchentoshan, we wanted something special for the third and final bottling of the Save Lars Whisky. After more than a year of looking for the right…

Royal Mile Whiskies is famous British online retailer with two actual shops: one in London and one in Edinburgh. They often release single malt under their own label. So far they have bottled 5 Highland…

Amazingly, I got this 1L bottle of the new Talisker expression for absolutely nothing. See, a friend of my girlfriend's was travelling in Europe, and I guess he owed her a favour - she asked him to find…

Jürgen Vromans hardly needs an introduction, I think. In a few years’ time he has grown from a friendly and helpful fellow that you could hire to help at whiskyfestival (hence the name Whisky Mercenary…