All Whisky reviews

There's no hiding that this is my favourite regularly-produced Canadian whisky, so I'll say it outright. It's produced in the Forty Creek "meritage" style, made from a mix of single grain corn, rye, and…

If you’re just getting into single malts, this is a great place to start. ‘The great all-rounder.’ There are sherried elements, highland elements, and peaty elements. There’s smoothness, balance, and a…

This is an old bottling by Signatory of a lesser known Speysider. A Tomintoul 1966 on sherry cask (which is no surprise, Tomintoul is known to use mostly if not exclusively sherry casks). Only 128 bot…

Knowing that Tomintoul market sits peated whisky under the Old Ballantruan label, this raised my eyebrows a little. Maybe not as peaty as the Old Ballantruan? Who know? Anyway, it is an entry level malt…

Old Ballantruan is the peaty version of Tomintoul, made with peated barley and matured on sherry casks. It is bottled at a nice 50% ABV. There is also a 10 Year Old, but I will try the NAS version. Malty…

Warm steady sweet fast arrival develops a fast creamy vegetable thin finish.

This 15 year old Glendronach marks the release of whisky under new distillery ownership. Matured in Oloroso sherry casks, this was awarded a Silver Medal at the 2009 Malt Maniacs Awards.

This Arumaticus 12yo is my first peated bottle, it has heavy peat nose. Once night I drunk and put the glass near my bed, there has a beautiful peated in my bedroom when I wake up in the morning. Then…

Benromach is a small distillery, this release is selected oak casks. Soft and spice, tasted like blended scotch.

Fiery hot ragging arrival develops a strong fruity and cereal balanced long slow thick finish.