World Whisky reviews

Little Trinity Church is the oldest surviving church in Toronto, and was built by William Gooderham in 1842 for his distillery employees so they could worship without paying the high pew fees at neigh…

I meant to review all of these a few months ago, but hey life gets in the way.....these are Corby Distillers' new range of premium Canadian whiskies (they also include Gooderham & Worts 17 Year Old Three…

While a lot of whisky reviewed on this site has been procured slightly illegally (ie. not declared at customs, purchased through private sales, etc), this is probably the first that has been actually…

Armory Maître de Chai is a Breton whisky from the Warengheim distillery. The word Chai is the French word for a wine or a spirit warehouse. A Maître de Chai can be translated in Master blender since he…

The third and final distillery exclusive in the Gouden Carolus' Pure Taste range, sold only in the visitor center of the Molenberg distillery, is again one of 36 months old. There are 3 different rele…

The Gouden Carolus Pure Taste is a range of young single malts only available at the distillery De Molenberg in Belgium. There are 3 different releases in bottles of 200ml, all three matured matured on…

I am as chauvinistic as any other Belgian, but so far I have never been really impressed with the Belgian whisky Gouden Carolus. Maybe that might change with this Pure Taste range, that is exclusively…

Nose: rather subtle. Molasses leads into an earthy, organic scent, not unlike mossy tree bark. Unusual but not unpleasant. In time I start to notice cinnamon hearts and a dark scent somewhere between…

My buddy Marcel from Holland sent me a box with some new make samples. One of those was the commercially available Vit Hun – meaning white dog – of the Swedish Mackmyra. Perhaps they took their inspir…

Let’s remain in Sweden some more and try a malt from Spirit of Hven. The distillery can be found on the island Hven in the strait between Sweden and Denmark. None other than astronomer Tycho Brahe lived…