World Whisky reviews

Let’s finish our line-up of non-Scotch whisky with one from the homefront, bottled at 46% (there is also a version at 76,1%). It is five years old and named officially ’60 months’. Whatever. Let’s taste…

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…

The Brilliance from Paul John was created using unpeated malt and maturation in bourbon barrels. It was bottled at a drinking strength without chill filtration.The nose is very grainy. Think cornflakes…

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…

Blackadder is one of the few independent bottlers that has brought this Indian single malt to the market. This Raw Cask – which means it contains some cask residue and oils and the like – was released…

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…

Chapter 9 of the English Whisky Company was launched in June 2010. It is a mere three years old and matured on a first fill bourbonvat. The barley was peated to about 35 ppm. On the label, it proudly…