All Whisky reviews

This is the closest Ive tried to a perfect peaty malt. Lagavulin would definitely get into the category of bonfire, leather, iodine, but also a raisin and a toasted pistachio marrying in your palate.…

Premium Spirits is the Belgian importer of BenRiach and has a rather special bond with the distillery as I found out during a Soirée with Billy Walker in June of this year. Especially for them, this…

Birnie Moss is an intensely peated version of BenRiach, with no age statement. It is very young, around 4 years. Birnie Moss is a peat bog close to the distillery. This was one of the first releases…

QV.ID, the specialized drinks shop in Huldenberg (Belgium) went it's own way in 2009 and Koen and Ingrid have since then put their shop on the map with a great assortment of wines, beers, gin and much…

The Macallan Select Oak is offered in the Duty Free range and thus comes in a 1 litre bottle – it costs around 60 EUR. The Select Oak is a marriage of whisky matured on three types of casks: American oak…

This Whiskymaker's Edition comes in a 1 litre bottle, available in the Duty Free range. With a price tag of around 250 EUR, I find it somewhat expensive for a NAS whisky. It was composed by Macallan…

A Macallan as a Macallan ought to be: fully matured on sherry, in this case a Pedro Ximenez cask. If I am not mistaken, this 21 Year Old Macallan was bottled by David Stirk for the Dutch market, under…

Another new expression released recently from the farm distillery of Kilchoman, this time no cask finishes or wine casks at all, ex-bourbon only. This batch is bottled from a vatting of 35 such casks…

This cambeltown expression is aged 16 yrs in ex-bourbon casks. THe nose is lively with lemon zest, honey and oak. In the mouth it is slightly oily, lemons come through now stronger upfront fading to…

I must admit I had never heard of Tamnavulin until around 6 months ago. Scotland has many distilleries and this is one of those that happily hides in plain sight. Started in 1966 this is a very efficient…