All Whisky reviews

Do you really think the Royal Family selected this whisky from the warehouses of the Speyside Distillery? I do not think so. It is a combination of the oldest sherry casks they still had (which can be…

I think I will always remember this day. It was my last day on Islay, having gone there for the Islay Festival, and I was just headed back after a fair amount of festivities at the Ardbeg open day.As me…

Here's Batch 2015-01, the first batch of this year. Booker's is calling it "Big Man, Small Batch." It's been matured for 7 years, 2 months and 16 days (well that's being specific). Let's try it next to…

If you read my stuff you know I have had this fascination with Campbeltown whiskies for the longest time. And, as I've said a million times, there is literally no rationale for that.However, it's a good…

This was only my second wheated bourbon (Rebel Yell was first). Coming from Buffalo Trace distillery, the mash has 75% corn, 20% wheat, 5% malted barley. So the secondary grain used in the mash bill, is…

The reviewed sample is courtesy of @Nock, from a half full bottle. Heaven Hill does not number the batches; we doNose: intense sharply-edged very sweet moderately-high-pitched vanilla-cinnamon-oak, like…

Since whisky is distilled from a "beer"(properly known as wort), doesn't it make sense to try to make a beer-like whisky? Of course, the "beer" that is in the washback at the distillery is not usually…

Description: distilled back in 1984 and matured for 26 years in a Bourbon hogshead(#2861).Nose: a gentle fresh lemony nose, some oak tannins in the form of sawdust are mixed in. I can also detect a faint…

Smooth sweet thin fast arrival develops a creamy sweet vegetal/herbal short finish.

How does a distillery can make a whisky from the 19th century? Simple, you take the same barley, the same peat and the same kind of still! For the Gerston, it means you take some Concerto barley, some…