All Whisky reviews

Rittenhouse Ryes are made at the Heaven Hill Distillery. This 40% ABV expression is rarely seen anymore, now that the public has become enamoured of the 50% ABV version. This reviewed bottle has been…

Dailuaine 16 year old Flora and Fauna was also part of our Speyside blind tasting. Maybe we should've started the tasting with this one because Dailuaine 16 yrs turned out to be probably the most deli…

I have had the chance to taste quite some Port Charlotte, but this week I can complete the range. Let me start with the five year old, hence PC5, at 63,5% ABV. Knowing that this is normally the standard…

There was actually a Port Charlotte Distillery on Islay until 1929, but she closed as Prohibition in the States became a fact. Today, Port Charlotte is produced at the Bruichladdich Distillery This PC7…

The PC11 Eòrna Na H-alba has just been released, but were are trhing the 2012 release of the PC10. The PC10 was the last one to be released under the old stewardship, before Rémy Cointreau took over. The…

The famous Belgian whisky shop of Marc Segers, called Whiskycorner – a magnet at festival because of its truly old bottlings available – celebrated its tenth anniversary with a private cask bottling of…

The Glengarry Cask Owners, the club around the Belgian whiskyguru Bob Minnekeer, bottled this Port Charlotte after 11 years of maturation on a sherry cask. It was distilled on 18 July 2001 and bottled…

When this bottle was first introduced at the Limburg Festival in Germany early 2013, it had a printing error on the label. It read bourbon barrel, while the whisky had in fact matured on a Rioja hogshead…

Contrary to the previously tasted PC on Rioja wine cask, this one has matured in a sherry hogshead. At the same time, a PC on bourbon cask was released as well. I am putting this one next to it.Great…

The most recent release of Port Charlotte by the German Malts of Scotland contains a sherry matured and bourbon matured. I happily put them head to head. Strangely enough (well, maybe not) the bourbon…