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Old Pulteney 12 @Day 0, 2012-05-28A U.K. import, added as a "filler" in a special shipment from Whisky Online, May 2012. My first Pulteney! A steal at 19 GBP (about AU $30).Nose: Delicate. Sweet Fruity…

This is one of those drams I’ve been itching to try for a while now. It’s roughly $55 Canadian at my local whisky store here in Taipei. I’ve heard good things about it from both friends and online rev…

Since this is one of the most reviewed whiskies around, I don't need any technical details to accompany this review, so I'll just jump right in.Nose: Smoke, citrus, salt and some wisps of vanilla. Cam…

“There are horrors beyond life's edge that we do not suspect, and once in a while man's evil prying calls them just within our range.” --HP Lovecraft, The Thing on the Doorstep (one of the few modern…

The 1263 from the name of this Dalmore refers to the year in which the Clan MacKenzie (later owners of the land on which the distillery was built) saved King Alexander III from being killed by a wild…

I first tasted this at a local whiskyfestival. I was not overly impressed, but wanted to give it the benefit of the doubt and took a sample home. This Dalmore was finished on Mucastel and Cabernet Sau…

The Ultimate is a series by Han and Maurice Van Wees, well known gents in the Dutch whisky community. They started in 1994 from their HQ in Amersfoort. All their bottlings are single casks at either 46%…

This Dalmore was distilled on 22 March 1973 and matured for three long decades on a Matusalem sherry cask from the famous Gonzalez Byass Bodega. It was bottled in 2003.Ha, what a sweet nose! And punchy…

Nose: seaside notes of salt and seaweed, medicinal and iodine notes as well. The peat and smoke is quite large but isn't very powerful. Large underlying notes of malted barley and cereal. Palate: Has a…

Nose: considering the whiskys massive strength of alcohol the nose has little burn, very nice notes of sherry (pudding, plumb and raisins) some notes of rich butterscotch and dark honey as well as some…