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Whisky Troef is a Belgian malt whisky club. For their most recent club bottling they asked Jürgen Vromans – aka The Whisky Mercenary – to select a cask. He offered them a lesser known malt: Ben Nevis.…

The Ultimate is a label of the Dutch bottler Van Wees. I tried several of their releases already (including two Auchentoshan) and will do so now again. This Auchentoshan is 11 years old, was distilled…

Douglas of Drumlanrig is a series by Langside Distillers, who are in turn linked to Douglas Laing. This 15 Year Old Auchentoshan was launched last year. It is a refill hogshead which partially explains…

Anam na h-Alba is Gaelic for the Soul of Scotland. This bottling is the first from Auchentoshan from this German bottler, led by Tom Skowronek. He chose a refill sherry hogshead from 1995 and bottled it…

Auchentoshan has another affaire with red wine. It certainly is not the first time. Auchentoshan is one of the few distilleries that is happily married to red wine, it must be said. The delicate nature…

Littlemill is always a bit of a feast for me. This is a sample I got from Foamy and contains a 23 Year Old Littlemill from the German bottler’s The Whisky Agency Stamp series. Littlemill 1990 normally…

The Nectar of the Daily Drams presented this Littlemill at the Spirits in the Sky festival in Brussels. It matured for 24 long years and was bottled at cask strength. It has a full golden color and beads…

St Magdalene has been closed since 1983 and the bottle I will try today was already released in 1998 by Diageo in their celebrated Rare Malts series. I previously tried their 23 Year Old from 1994, but…

The nose on this is nice. It is fruity ans sweet but the in the mouth it just falls apart. The finish is unenjoyable.

I was surprised to realize that I have never reviewed the two basic Bushmills whiskeys: the Original blend and the 10 Year Old malt. Shocking, since I've always enjoyed Bushmills - let's correct that and…