All Whisky reviews

After much planning and fanfare I finally managed to make a trip to Islay for the famed Islay Whisky Festival. It was a long overdue trip made even better with the company of two of my whisky buddies…

10 years ago, back in 2005 Diageo distiller Glen Ord released a 30yo expression. To this day it will remain their oldest official expression, but who knows maybe they'll release a 40yo statement this…

Lagavulin distillery was founded by John Johnston on the South shore of Islay in 1816, one year after Ardbeg distillery had been established. In 1825 Johnston acquired the nearby Ardmore distillery, and…

Elijah Craig Barrel Proof Bourbon 69.9 ABV Batch 8Elijah Craig Barrel Proof is a limited release Small Batch bourbon. They hand select a limited amount of barrels that match in flavor profile. This is…

Fiery smoke & peat loaded arrival red fruit and Iodine packed middle followed by long slow rich oily thick mouth coating vegetal finish. L12 331 13:50 6ML

Glenallachie is another one of those unknown distilleries in whiskyland, for the simple reason that there are hardly any official bottlings. This Speysider, founded only in 1967, produces quasi exclus…

The stream of independent bottlings of Irish single malt seems to be endless. Last year Jurgen’s Whiskyhuis released this 13 Year Old Irish malt in the ‘Uisge Beatha Taigh’ series (after a grand Ardbeg…

Jurgen Vromans - aka The Whisky Mercenary – was able to get hold of a cask of peated Irish whiskey and bottled it for a Flemish and Dutch whisky shop. They each got their own label. I was told that the…

This is not Asta Morris’ first Glenburgie. Previously he had a much younger version (9 years old), but this is one from 1995, almost 20 years old, from the Signatory stables in Pitlochry.The nose is…

Not much to add to the hundreds of reviews of HP 21 across the globe. It's good, made even better by the fact that I secured this dram when the "KGBO" (thanks Nozinan) had HP21 at 38% cheaper than its…