World Whisky reviews

There have been numerous bottlings of the Solist on bourbon casks, all at cask strength. Mine has reference B080616095 and yielded 203 bottles at 57,8%. The nose is rife with vanilla, coconut and over…

This Kavalan Single Malt saw the light of day in 2008 and is the distillery’s best seller. It is composed from first fill bourbon and sherry casks, but also several refill casks and even a wine cask. It…

Tasting of Teerenpeli Kaski Distiller's Choice was part of Teerenpeli distillery tour at their Taivaanranta distillery in Lahti. And it turned out to be one to best positive upsets in my 'whisky tasting…

I was searching for some of my notes for a Glen Grant and discovered that, in fact, not only had I never typed them up, I never typed up any notes from a tasting session back in October. Memory fades,…

Teerenpeli 8 year old is bottled from a selection of ex-Bourbon and ex-Sherry casks. Teerenpeli is the first Finnish commercially available single malt whisky. I had the chance to taste Teerenpeli 8 yrs…

Well it finally arrived today;my bottle of chapter 6. I really was curious about the taste of such a young single malt whisky. And it did not disappointed me. What a mature taste. The nose is not alco…

I bet the title left you wondering...no, unfortunately there's nothing squid resembling in the taste (just my reference to Finnish films). First Finnish whiskey maker Teerenpeli, from the city of Lahti…

Even though I'm back from a trip to Scotland - having brought back five bottles (six if you count a bottle of rum for my dad's 70th birthday) , and tasted countless more - I thought I would do a complete…