All Whisky reviews

Pale gold in colour and nicely packaged up in a metal tube, gives a feeling of quality that cardboard can’t. Rich aromas on opening the bottle just get better when poured and savoured, lightly smoky with…

Up until recently Kavalan was the only Taiwanese distillery on the map. And while I love me some Kavalan, I’m happy to say that things are changing. Over the past couple of years, there’s been a new…

I really enjoyed my last NAS Laphroaig, the Triple Wood. Maybe I’m on a roll here. This one’s called “Laphroaig PX.” It’s a travel retail release that has spent time in PX, bourbon, and quarter casks…

I got pretty excited before opening this one. An affordable Islay single malt at cask strength? Great! As usual, I checked the online reviews for this, which are largely positive. I felt like I’d struck…

Alcohol is definitely there in the nose, but countered by sweet maple syrup, vanilla and french oakTaste is of stinging ethanol, sweet corn grain, very light oakFinish is a bit rough, burns plenty with…

To be honest, I have not yet tried all that many Craigellachie. What I did have did not really blow me away. This malt is important for blends such as Dewar’s White Horse. This bottling in the Provenance…

This Bunna comes with no age statement. There is not a lot of information to be found for this Provenance bottling. The only thing the label states is that it is a small batch edition and that it is…

The sons of John Teeling (who put the Cooley distillery on the map and recently sold it to Beam) stepped into their father’s footsteps and recently opened a new distillery in Dublin. The Teeling whiskey…

About a year ago I tried the Teeling 21 Silver Reserve. Today, let us up the ante with this Teeling 26 Year Old Gold Reserve. This Irish whiskey was double distilled in 1987 (the year Cooley was founded…

This Midelton is a blend and is rare for the fact that only 50 casks are bottled each year to create it. All the whiskey in the mix is triple distilled and aged between 12 and 25 years. The 2014 release…