All Whisky reviews

I've always wanted to try a really old malt but price is the barrier. This 33yo Royal Brackla however was just about affordable with pricing still only in double digits. And distilled just 30 days after…

The 2012 Release is the second release of Corby's Lot No. 40. The whisky is made at the Hiram Walker Distillery, from a single copper pot still. The mashbill is reported to be 100% rye grain, with 90%…

On Thursday 9 May 2013 a group of 20 whisky aficionados, myself included, were invited the the Belgian online retailer The Bonding Dram to select a cask for their sixth birthday. Quite an honor that had…

Elements of Islay Bn4, a dark and sweet character made from the collections of Bunnahabhain. I only had a chance to take few tastes of this on a road trip to Taivaanranta distillery in Finland. So I'm…

When this Arran hit the shelft some 9 months ago, it was with a lot of pooha. Great packaging, devilishly clever name (which refers, by the way, to Coire na Cinche, an ice age era cave close to the…

I got to now Brachadair, a young independent bottler from Belgium, at the Festival for Independent Bottlers, where I tried their magnificent 21 Year Old Braeval. They pointed out to me that they have two…

Let us stay with the new Belgian bottler Brachadair for a moment, as they also have this 14 Year Old Laphroaig, bottled by A.D. Rattray.At the front of the nose I get quite some ashes and smoke, covering…

Another day, another Laphroaig, why not? The German Malts of Scotland has bottled yet another one. This 16 Year Old is already their 19th cask bottled by Thomas. How many Laffie casks do they have in…

For the next Laffie in this series, I had to go through my cabinet of sample. I found a bottling from 2009, bottled by Koen from the Belgian shop QVID. It is a 13 Year Old Laphroaig from 1996. The D on…

This is the third Kilchoman I've tried and at 5-6 Years Old the oldest too. Minty peat with sultanas on the nose with a note of toffee. In fact mint and toffee seems to be a consistent underlying profile…