All Whisky reviews

In many ways this specific bottle has been my “white whale.” It has won a great deal of acclaim: whiskyfun gave it 94 points, Jim Murray gave it 97 points, and it won a gold medal from the Malt Maniacs…

I remember my first Lagavulin and, yes, it was the 16; just like everyone else. Unlike most first-timers who can get dissuaded by the ashy peat and smoke my palate actually cut through that and went to…

Kavalan distillery is located in the northern part of Taiwan, 60 kilometres south of Taipei. It was built over an eight month period in 2005 and 2006 and uses copper stills that were constructed in…

My air conditioning unit broke down, and it's a bajillion degrees out there. What's a boy to do? Drink Laphroaig 18, of course.The colour is a bright gold. On the nose the smoke is perfectly integrated…

The Celtic Whisky Compagnie is a company by Jean and Martine Donnay, who also own the Breton Glann ar Mor distillery and the still to be erected Gartbreck distillery on Islay. Their Celtique Connexion…

Armorik is produced by Warenghem, in Brittany, France, not too far away from the Glann ar Mor distillery. Their Classic matured on refill bourbon barrels.I immediately have the feeling I am nosing new…

The color is a deep reddish-gold, as dark as the darkest Bourbon I’ve poured into a glass. It has slow, syrupy, promising legs. The nose is unmistakably Scottish: peat, grape, and cream dangling in a…

My third encounter with Imperial was rather unexpected. After a long day of wading through mud, patches of ice, melting snow and rocks in Jotunheimen. I finally arrived at the DNT fjellstue Leirvassbu…

The Breton distillery Glann ar Mor (which means ‘by the sea’) which closed operations on the 15th of August 2015, produced this single malt with Maris Otter barley. This is an ancient experimental var…

A relatively new release from Bowmore, and having been a big fan of their classic 17YO from a few years back I grabbed a bottle as soon as I could.However, this is quite markedly different from the…