All Whisky reviews

Glenkinchie is sometimes referred to as the Edinburgh malt, because the capital is only 25 kilometres to the north. I am trying this Lowlander from a bottling by Signatory, in their cask strength coll…

The German bottler Malts of Scotland also has a Glenkinchie, from their first year of operation, i.e. 2009. It matured for 33 long years on a sherry cask. Well, by now we know that Thomas Ewers usually…

This Bladnoch was distilled in the ear of United Distillers, so before the Irishman Raymond Armstrong came along in 1995 to take over. The Austrian Single Cask Collection bottled this cask in 2011 after…

Saint Magdalene was built in the city of Linlithgow in a place where the Knights Templar had built a hospital to treat lepers in the 12th Century. There was even a time Linlithgow had five operational…

Douglas Laing, the well known bottler from Glasgow, has bottled quite a few Saint Magdalene from 1982 (a year before the distillery was closed) in their Old Malt Cask series. This means they were bottled…

Some independent bottlers choose to release casks from Saint Magdalene under the name of the city in which is was founded: Linlithgow. This one is 18 years old and bottled by Scott’s Selection. Oddly…

Caledonian was a grain distillery west of the capital, founded in 1855 and closed in 1988, at the time property of Diageo who had just taken over Guinness. Coincidentally (or not), there is still a…

In keeping with the CC theme, here is their spiced variant (they also have a spiced "blueberry", which came and went pretty quick). It is named after Dock 57, which was in Windsor and was apparently…

Warm smooth medium sweet grainy not overly complex arival developes into short fast veggietable finish.