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My very first Smögen! This Swedish distillery, founded in 2009, it was built in a farmstead near Hunnebostrand a little to the north of Göteborg. It is named after a nearby island and has only a capacity…

In 2010 Albrecht Ebensperger built the very first whisky distillery in Italy. She can be found in the Alps near Glorenza in the Venosta Valley, just beneath the point where Italy, Switerzland and Austria…

Some 4 years ago I got to know the Pirlot whisky, released under the same name as their beers, i.e. Kempisch Vuur (‘Campine Fire’). I tried L1, L2 and L3 – in which the L referred to the Laphroaig qua…

This is only my second encounter with this young distillery from London and the first one was very pleasant. This Oloroso cask was one of the highlights in my online tasting ‘New Kids on the Block’ and…

This is a late 2020 bottling of the flagship, age-stated malt from the only (for now) distillery on the Isle of Arran. I have to note that it is distinctly darker than the last bottle I bought (with the…

On 13th December 2020 I took part in the Online Christmas Tasting by the Dutch Connection, under the guidance of Michiel Wigman and my Catawiki co-worker Jeroen Koetsier. This Longmorn was one of the…

This Longmorn was bottled last year by Hart Brothers. It’s a young malt, at cask strength, that was finished on a Marsala wine cask.The nose is pretty shy. It takes a while before it offers some straw…

This is a 1L bottle I picked up at auction some time ago - although I don't know when it was bottled, I'm going to hazard a guess that it's from the 1990s.The colour is a light caramel. Some rye spice…

Only just a few weeks ago I tried the first batch of this Chaos, a malt from Caol Ila composed from two PX hogshead that were put to sleep in 2010 and a refill hogshead from 2009. For this second batch…

Name-wise this is very apt considering what North Star Spirits already bottled with Spica, Vega and Sirius. All of them are references to the galaxy. Chaos was, after all, what came after the Big Bang…