All Whisky reviews

Fiery fast vanilla, rubbery arrival long slow malt flavored middle develops a long pleasant thick sweet Soddy / earthy finish

This is an interesting whisky, blended from Scotch and South African spirits. The nose is peaty and a touch sweet, with caramel, dusty grain and slightly juicy grape and apple. Very subtle and not ter…

The reviewed bottle has been open approximately 2 years and is 70% full. This is an unpeated malt. Nose: pleasant light wine flavours, gentle rounded flavours of malt; light apple and pears; moderate…

Anchor Distilling's Hotaling's Whiskey is named after A.P.Hotaling & Company's whiskey which survived the 1906 San Francisco Fire, which destroyed 28,188 buildings, including many churches. When several…

Glenlivet is one of the world’s largest distilleries, which I visited in September 2010. Their whiskies are noted for their fruity and floral elements, rather typical for Speyside. Let us go back to…

This Glenlivet is also a 15 Year Old, but of a whole other calibre, because distilled in 1978. It was presented during one of Bert Bruyneel’s Wee Dram Master tastings. It is bottled by Gordon & Macphail…

Murry MacDavid, until recently part of Bruichladdich, but after the sale of the distillery to Rémy Cointreau now in the hands of Aceo, bottled this Glenlivet from 1972. It matured for 26 years on a…

I cannot help it, but again we end up with Bert Bruyneel. This time we are trying a 32 Year Old Glenlivet from 1977 (the year in which Star Wars opened, by the way), bottled for his own label Asta Morris…

Let us end this little line-up of Glenlivet with a 36 Year Old from 1975, bottled by the Italian company Wilson & Morgan, in their Barrel Selection series in 2010. It came from a first fill sherry cask…

This is my first Arran. I haven’t sampled much from this distillery, but right now I find myself starting with the 100 Proof. I like a bit of kick, so I thought a healthy 57% abv. may be right up my…