World Whisky reviews

It is fair to say that the Dàlvve is the first release in the standard range of the Swedish Box distillery. The first batch appeared in October 2016 – at last in 70cl bottles – while the batch I will try…

When Box launched its American Oak in 2016, they still did so in 500ml bottles. By now the malt had turned 5 years old and matured on first fill boubon casks, getting an extra finish on American new oak…

In August 2016 the Swedish distillery Box launched this 4 year old malt in her 2nd Step Collection. It is a mix of bourbon casks (48%) and first fill oloroso casks (52%). Just like the Explorer, a half…

The Box Destillerie in the high north of Sweden was founded in 2010. Like every new distillery, they release their product at an early age to be able to keep paying the bills. Most of their young whis…

Next to the Eddu Grey Rock – a blended grain – the distillery also has the Grey Rock Brocéliande, Silver, Silver Brocéliande, Gold and Ed Gwenn. Let’s try the Silver, which is a single grain, distilled…

The French Distillerie des Menhirs can be found near Plomelin, Brittany, a bit south of Quimper and not too far from the Gulf of Biscaya. It was already founded in 1986 by Guy de Lay, who distilled…

The following is a preview of an upcoming blog postIn an era where clear spirits were all the rage and most Canadian whisky companies were playing it safe, winemaker John K Hall took a chance and brought…

Brenne was discovered by Alison Parc, an NYC-based whisky blogger who found an existing, relatively unknown distillery in the Cognac region and worked with them to develop and market this brand around…

Armorik is the single malt brand from Warenghem, who also make the Breizh blended whisky. This was from a sample bottle (courtesy of Johanne McInnis) so I don't know much about it other than it was fully…

Even though it was founded in 1900, Warenghem Distillerie of Britanny, didn't start making whisky until 1999 (before that, like most European distilleries, they made cider and brandies). Unlike most…