All Whisky reviews

Saved for moving into my first home I have been saving this for quite some time. Probably the first whisky I ever fell in love with and the true reason my obsession began.Got it for £50 but that was with…

This reviewed Alchemist Bottling of Springbank 10 YO was distilled in December 1995 and bottled in April 2006. This bottling vats distillate aged in "fresh" port pipes and first fill bourbon barrels.…

I won't bother with tasting notes, since very few people can secure a bottle of The Beast. Here are my impressions of the last glass I tasted (about two weeks ago):Nose utterly fantastical and nearly…

On the Alchemist bottle label, by Gordon Wright: "When I bought Bruichladdich with Mark Reynier and Simon Coughlin in 2000, we decided to produce a much more heavily peated single malt than Bruichladdich…

This is a “what might have been” kind of review. This is a review of a 30mL sample of a Port Ellen official bottling. The back story: An actual bottle of this 9th release (30 year old) Port Ellen sat at…

I opened this bottle on my birthday (October 10th) along with a few other cask strength bottles. Here are the notes from that experience. Nose: Super hot on the nose. WOW!! Fresh fruit straight away:…

(could be sherry butt no. DMG 5746, dist Spring 83, bottled Winter 2010).This was another sample my wife purchased for me. I don’t claim this as a definitive review of this whisky. Rather, this is simply…

This whisky is a bit deceptive. It’s not a simple dram, although I remember thinking it was when I first had it ages ago. When I first tried it, I was only just getting into whisky. I remember thinking…

I realized last night that i am still to review anything from Bunnahabhain, although i've owned at least 5 bottles throughout the years. I've even been lucky to try the 25 year old last year, and yes it…

Well.... Having tried a couple of the expressions of Octomore in the past at a rather nice whisky bar, I finally took the plunge and bought my. Own bottle. I bought the latest release, the 6.1. This is…