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 ...
A lot of casks are presented as sherry casks even when they’re coming from outside of the sherry triangle. Especially the nearby D.O.’s Huelva and Montilla-Moriles are trying to surf the hype and ...
Glen Ord already appeared in the Special Releases in 2020, as an 18 year old from freshly charred hogsheads. The Singleton of Glen Ord 17 yo ‘Into the Blue’ (56,2%, OB Special Releases 2025, second ...
Nose: beautifully soft and rather fruity, with a honeyed layer of stewed fruits underneath a very thin veil of faded smoke. Sweetened lemon juice and some rather aromatic peaches. Then hints of orange ...
Farm distillery Daftmill is steadily bringing out more summer / winter releases, coinciding with the farms quiet seasons. It’s made with Concerto barley grown and harvested on their estate, and ...
The 2025 Special Releases bring us an 18 year old Clynelish single malt. There’s more good news as they used refill casks for maturation. One thing stands out in the description though: it includes ...