I visited the Whiskyshine festival in Macao, tried some excellent whiskies, met wonderful people and wrote a few words about ...

Review of the Speyside single malt 18 Years, bottled by Saltire Rare Malts in their Cigar Malt series. It is matured in a PX ...

Review of the Penderyn 2015, a 10 year old single malt Scotch whisky bottled from bourbon cask 276, exclusive to The Whisky ...

Review of Blair Athol 1986, a 38 year old single malt whisky bottled by One8Nine in the Eternal Cycle series. Matured in a ...

There’s a new batch from The Whisky Agency called Wave farewell to 2025. Today we’ll look at the non-peated single malts. All ...

Gouden Carolus is a highly respected beer from brewery Het Anker in Mechelen, Belgium. Besides a family brewing tradition spanning five generations, the family also distilled genever in a nearby ...

While virtually every independent bottler is releasing cognac and rum these days, Calvados is still taking up a small share. Perhaps because its obvious fruity character makes it quite different from ...

Nose: earthy and meaty. Roasted coffee. Incense. Charred steak. Very smoky for a Karuizawa. All of this mixed with a lovely sweetness of chocolate and black cherries. Precious spices like Szechuan and ...

Nose: classic iodine, with raw barley and oak char. Seaweed and seashells on a beach. There’s a vague fruitiness in the background, mainly on citrus and apple. Wet wool and hints of almonds as well.