World Whisky reviews

Another entry into the Alumni Series. These whiskies have been generally good, if not necessarily ground-breaking. This one is a three-grain blend aged for 12 years in 4 casks types (Canadian, bourbon…

Stephan de Bolle, the spirits director at importer Cinoco visited the Destillerie des Menhirs just south of Quimper in French Brittany last summer, tasted several cask samples and immediately decided…

After rediscovering the Eddu Brocéliande, I thought it would be a good idea to try Eddu's Silver and Gold again. This French whisky is a single grain, distilled from buckwheat. As far as I know, this is…

I confess, when I first tasted Eddu a few years ago, I wasn't crazy about it. But I think I didn't understand the whisky very well. For example, I completely ignored the fact that it is distilled from…

I’ve developed a tradition of posting a review of a Canadian whisky on January 1st. This will be my fifth such review. I have a small backlog of Canadians I want to review, and originally I was going…

This whisky seems to be a total chameleon; just about every review seems to say something completely different. I expected the second maturation in heavily charred oak to make this a more oak-forward…

I believe this expression just came out today. It is the first in a new Lot 40 series called "Rye Explorations" - a cask strength 100% rye whisky finished for 17 months in first-fill peated single malt…

This new expression of Lot 40 came out last year - I believe it is the same recipe as the standard, except it is matured twice: first in new oak barrels with No. 2 char, then finished in new oak barrels…

High Coast is located in northern Sweden, at 63 degrees latitude (as the packaging keeps saying). I don't know much about them but they seem to focus solely on single malt. According to the website, they…

Zuidam Distillery in the Netherlands, Europe has become a rather well known name in the liquor industry concerning whisky, although Connosr hasn't listed the distillery or its brand name.The whisky of…