World Whisky reviews

Pretty sure Canadian Club Premium was the first whisky I ever tasted, back when I was more concerned with the effects than the quality of the spirit.Nose: a bit of alcohol, a lot of caramel. A touch…

I enjoy a good bourbon / whiskey from time to time, and when I heard of this release a year or so ago from my good friend and whisky lover Sjoerd, I decided to opt for a 10 cl sample, before i buy a…

This is a review of a sample graciously provided by @Nozinan on Nov 13/17. The bottle was opened Oct 1/17, was 4/5 full when the sample was poured and the bottle has been gassed. If I got any of that…

There are 3 commercial whisky distilleries currently operating in Israel : M&H (Milk and honey) , Pelter and Golan heights which is the one getting the least headlines, and PR, probably since it’s a…

This one they call Wild Oak. Kinsip describes it as "bourbon-style" and is a blend of corn, wheat, rye and malt, matured for 3 1/2 years in American oak. 642 bottles.The colour is a medium toffee. Very…

Kinsip House of Fine Spirits (formerly known as 66 Gilead) is a charming micro distillery at a farm in Prince Edward County in Ontario. The farm was first established in the late 1800s, growing barley…

This one is a new(ish) expression of Highwood's Ninety 20 expression, called "Decades of Richness" (for some reason? Maybe an anniversary?) I believe it's distilled from corn, but if I'm wrong let me…

Well, I'm just coming off of a week's vacation, and I got so busy with travel, seeing friends, stuff around the house, bleh bleh bleh that I never got to any whisky reviews. While in Boston I picked up…

This whisky has been around for a few years now, always staring at me, begging me to give it a chance. Being into hoppy beers, this bottle intrigued me, but I was never willing to give it the shelf…

So it turns out this Canadian version of Triple Barrel Rye is a re-labeling of the Double Still Rye. On the nose there is a coppery tang. A lightly perfumed sweetness deeper in the glass. A bit hot…