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Got me a sample of another extreme. This one is extreme, because it is a 100% Wheater. It is extreme, but in a gentle way.The nose reminds me of the Maker's Mark Red Seal, something which isn't surpri…

I was really looking forward to taste my sample of one of the Balcones range. The Baby Blue is a Small Batch Blue Corn (100% Corn). I got Batch #10, which was bottled at 26.8.2010.To confuse you a bit…

This was a bit loose around the edges, it seems to forget itself at points. Nose: Bitter Apple, Honey, some nutmeg, and there it goes forgetting it is a single malt scotch, some fresh mowed grass. Palate…

I had this a few times so i could give a fair review of it. This was 44 dollars at costco and let me tell you i am happy. Nose: Oak, smoke, cherries, apricots, apples, some vanilla, a dash of spice with…

This is one of the very last expressions in Ichiro Akuto’s “Card Series”. It was distilled in 2000 and matured in a hogshead before being finished in a sherry butt. It was released in 2012.The nose is…

Etienne Bouillon recently made the news by intalling to Caperdonich stills in his Belgian Owl distillery near Grace-Hollogne. The are operational as I write this and Etienne launched a plan to sell the…

The Belgian Owl started production in October 2004. For the third year in a row, Etienne Bouillon is releasing a single malt at cask strength. I tried this one, from cask 4276140 filled in 200ml bottles…

During our visit to the Filliers distillery in December 2011, Fernand Daquin allowed us a dram of what is now, it would seem, bottled: the Goldlys finished in an oloroso sherry cask.The nose reminds me…

The Goldlys portfolio has expanded considerably. The latest in this series of Belgian whisky from double distillation (once in a pot still and once in a column still), matured on bourbon casks before…

In 2010, this first single cask from Goldlys, a distillate from 1989, was bottled. So it is 21 years old, which means that Goldlys was making whisky long before any of us had any inkling.The nose is very…