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The Bottle Your Own programme from Auchentoshan currently boasts not one, but two casks. Yoav Gelbfish from Israel visited the distillery, bottled from bourbon cask 11030 and graciously offered to send…

The Silveroak first appeared on the duty free market last year and is a mix of bourbon and orloroso sherry casks. Last summer, a second batch from the same stocks was bottled, making it a 22 Year Old…

In the not too distant past, I had a rather unpleasant encounter with an Auchentoshan 1984. Remember the Master of Malt debacle? Pure FWP. So I was not very keen on opening my bottle with number 2 of 209…

When 500 bottles of the Auchentoshan 1975 appeared on the market two years ago, I even flew out to Glasgow to pick up my bottle at the distillery. The distillate from 7 May 1975 was simply marvelous…

Derek Mather is the chef of the famous whisky restaurant Artisan in Wishaw, about a half hour outside of Glasgow. He is also a big Star Wars fan and quite likeable. He has got quite a few one-off bottles…

When visiting the Auchentoshan Distillery, you get the opportunity to bottle your own from two casks. Obviously I brought one of each. The youngest that you can currently try is bourbon hogshead #49 that…

On Friday 14th February 2014 we visited Jan Beckers in the Douglas Laing HQ in Glasgow. We were very pleasantly surprised when halfway through our visit none other than Fred Laing himself dropped by to…

Hart Brothers has three Auchentoshan on the market. An 11 Year Old that I have already tried, this 13 Year Old and a 16 Year Old that I will try soon. All samples were gifts from my German whisky buddy…

Chris Leggat once worked at my favorite distillery. It’s where he met his future wife Cara. When Cara joined her father’s business months later, Chris followed. Cara and Chris got married in Scottish…

My experience with Fettercairn is rather limited. I only had three so far. But what I will be tasting today is as good as impossible to find nowadays. This is an 8 Year Old Fettercairn that was bottled…