All Whisky reviews

The very first distillery that I visited in Speyside is one of the smallest distilleries in Scotland. Run just by a couple of passionate whisky geeks my wife and I visited Benromach.I'd heard of Benro…

Color: Gold.Nose: Right out of the bottle the peat hits you with a strong Stilton cheese-like aroma and the embers of a dying campfire, tempered with sweeter notes of sliced red grapes and night-blooming…

I have had the pleasure of trying several Longmorn, but this is only my third youngling. Two other 12 year olds were the Longmorn 1996 in the Carn Mor Vintage Collection, the other the rather outstanding…

The smaller the cask, the more intense the interation between the wood and the spirit. Logical. Duncan Taylor put this to the test with the The Octave Cask series. After a regular maturating in butts,…

The last Longmorn that I try in this little line-up, is the newest from Malts of Scotland. And what a nice Longmorn indeed! No less than 36 years old from the legendary vintage (for Longmorn at least)…

I like my whisky at cask strength and I'm also appreciating younger whisky, some of the drams I've tried over 18yrs are for me too rich. The 18yo Springbank is excellent as is the 15yo (probably my…

This is the latest Tempest - Batch 4. With a few drops of water from the start.On the nose I detect honey the strongest. This is followed by a sharp lemony edge with peaty-smokiness underneath. I find…

Another obscure distillery to cross off my checklist. This is probably the palest whisky I've ever seen - especially strange when thinking that it's aged 17 years.The nose is of freshly sliced green…

A sweet, honeyed nose with some fruit, maybe apple/banana/peach. Alcohol is very much present. Not much development over 15 minutes.On the tongue there is much more wood than the nose would have indic…

On the nose, sherry and caramel predominate. Doesn't seem so complex but it's nice. Not in a hurry to get past this to the drink.On the tongue, caramel again and the oak comes through, not as sweet as…