World Whisky reviews

Until recently I had not even heard of the Paul John Single Malt. John Distilleries was founded in 1992 by Paul John and their single malts already won quite a few awards. Yet it took until a festival…

Of this Swedish distillery (which has just started distilling in a whole new factory, turning the old one into a museum), I have tried a few. At the recent Whisky Festival in Ghent, I scored a sample of…

Nice name, no? Kadhambam! Sounds a bit like an onomatopoeia, but in fact is a word in Tamil, a south Indian language, meaning mixture or combination. According to the backlabel, you will get a combina…

I have to admit that I am not very fond of whisky’s with a name that cannot be pronounced properly without looking like a complete idiot. It makes for difficult conversation. This Breton whisky matured…

This single cask of Amrut, which contains very young whisky (but in the Indian climate, that means little when applied to maturation), is a single malt that is produced from unpeated barley. Only 161…

The last one to try in this Paul John series from India is a Peated Selected Cask. Expectation are elevated as this is a single bourbon cask and bottled at a higher strength, something that I always…

The Edited is a whole other animal, created with peated spirit (although only 15% of the composition and moreover coming from Scotland). It was bottled at 46% without chill filtration, just like the…