World Whisky reviews

I'm revisiting this bottle after many years, and I'll tell you up front that my impression hasn't changed much. One thing that has changed is the 10 year age statement on the bottle, though I've read it…

This new small-batch whisky from the Georgian Bay Spirit Company is a blend of single-grain corn and rye whiskies. Age and cask type is unknown. Soft on the nose, slight grainy. Wet stone, vanilla, and…

I guess it was only a matter of time before a single cask for Belgium would be bottled. This former rum cask was filled with spirit on 30th July 2017 and bottled at 55% on 2nd August 2020, so just three…

For the Apex White Wine Tomer Goren, the Master Distiller at the Milk & Honey Distillery from Tel Aviv got to work with casks that previously held Israeli Chardonnay.The nose is quite different. I’m…

Apex means peak or pinnacle, with which Milk & Honey’s Master Distiller Tomer Goren wants to point out that this is up there with the best of what he has created so far. There are four expressions at…

Israel is not really top of mind when thinking about red wine. We first think of France and Italy, right? But the Israeli climate is such that they too make beautiful red wines, it seems. Barkan or…

This peated expression in the Element trilogy from Milk & Honey was not made from peated barley. It is in fact their Classic of which a part (41%) was matured on former Islay casks, married with (59%)…

Milk & Honey launched the Elements Trilogy in 2020. The first one I’ll try is the Sherry which – as the name suggests – matured on oloroso and PX casks, while a part of bourbon matured malt was also…

This is the flagship of the Israeli distillery, as the name suggests. It matured on a combination of casks: former bourbon casks and so-called red wine STR casks. STR is short for ‘shaved, toasted & re…

Israël… the land of milk and honey. In 2012 the first distillery was founded in the heart of Tel Aviv named Milk & Honey. Thanks to a crowdfunding campaign they could invest in materiel and a building…