All Whisky reviews

Black Bull 12 year old by Duncan Taylor surprised me big time! I expected a much lower score from this blended whisky.Though the name implies bit more. Black Bull 12 yrs is definitely black: it is dark…

I'm wary of independent bottlings, to be honest. I never know what to expect. There's not a lot of information on most of them. And they can go horribly wrong. So when I happened to taste this with a…

We've all had Canadian Club growing up, I presume, slumming it in a bar some where. It's not a bad drink with Coke but then what is? Anyway, it's not Canadian Club I want to talk but it's cousin Glen…

Now I honestly don't know how many of you have heard of The Irishman. I hadn't heard anything about it till a few days ago until a friend popped it out of his bar for a surprise curve ball at a tasting…

So here's the ridiculously hard to pronounce (and even harder to spell) Diurachs' Own 16 year old. Another trademark syrupy offering from Jura.The thick Oloroso sherry comes screaming through on the back…

Virgin Oak is in. We already tried (and very much liked) the Auchentoshan Virgin Oak from the same stables. This is the first Glen Garioch that matured on completely new American oak.The nose is very…

Knowing that Glen Garioch used peated malt until 1993, I expect a bit of classic smokiness in this whisky. It is from one of Scotland’s oldest distilleries, founded in 1797.The nose is very aromatic with…

Glen Garioch hardly uses sherry casks, so this oloroso sherry matured is a bit of an odd one out. It was released at the end of 2013 and will set you back around 65 EUR.The aromatic nose offers red…

The series with the resounding name The Ultimate is Dutch, brought to market by the independent bottlers Van Wees. Bar a mistake on my part, they have so far bottled three Glen Keith, including this 16…

Douglas Laing bottled this 18 Year Old Glen Keith way back in 2008. As is custom for the Old Malt Cask, it was bottled at the golden drinking strength of 50% ABV.Nice, round and full nose with yellow and…