All Whisky reviews

from purchased sampleNose: Very fresh, acidic (green apples in honey). Extremely high quality vanilla, and varnish trending to sweet glue. Cake frosting. Very well integrated sweet and natural wood.…

from purchased sampleNose: Cherries, strawberries, with a touch of rhubarb, stewed brown and purple fruit in maple syrupy goodness. Orange. Vanilla-y wood. Eye-rollingly good here. Kudos to me for trying…

I've saved the best for the last! Odd little way to start a whisky review, but it's true.My wife had bought me a whisky advent calender from Master of Malt that was made up of 24 different whiskies, from…

Time to open another bottle of something peaty, something Ardbeg. This one is bottled 2007, so it is 17YO. The last bottle I had was also a 2007 so I do not know how this compares to the 2006 or 2008…

I am not the most experienced reviewer and am writing it as i see/smell/taste it. I have heard this referred to as the "entry level" expression by Glen Moray. I wouldn't disagree.Upon pouring into the…

Well, this hasn't been my week. My kid has head lice, my washing machine is acting up, my car heater doesn't work properly (this is Toronto in January, ya know), work is ballistic and my grandmother is…

I have been looking forward to trying this for a long time and finally found a bottle and what a score! The name says it all…though the spice is not as over powering as compared to the ‘slap in yo face’…

Belvenie SB 15 Cask 7287, bottle 65 – Belvenie Belvenie…how I wish I hadn’t finished ya off so fast, by far my whisky of the year for 2012. I just could not get enough of this magnificent dram. I never…

Acquired this on a whim and the fact that I've never had an EWSB Vintage before. Bottling stats are as follows: 2002 Vintage Aged 9 years/10 months 43.3%/ 86.6° Barrel No. 163Nose: I detected maple syrup…

Last Friday I came home from a long day of work and had just got into the store, plopped down in front of my PC to check emails, only to have my wife come into the living room with a surprise.A package…