Scotch Whisky reviews

In 2013 I was just 2 years into my whisky journey and still in the process of gathering as many different bottles as I could with the mistaken belief that I would at some point get around to opening and…

This bottle was bought at auction and was originally presented to a cooper from the Port Dundas cooperage in 2001 - so the sticker on the back says. Bottled at 43%, and in a 75 cl bottle, I was able to…

A delightfully received Xmas gift - although much suggestive psychology, aka nagging, was employed - was this little beauty. I've been enjoying Mortlach lots, of late, and this was a big ticket item so…

My first taste of Octomore was back in December 2012 when I discovered the 4.1 in Calgary. I told the salesman that I had read about this in Toronto but had never seen it. He offered me a sample and it…

I didn't get around to writing a review while I still had the bottle, but I love this stuff so much that I wanted to put some thoughts down anyway. Yes, it is only 40% ABV, chill filtered and probably…

This young Port Ellen, distilled in the last year that the (old) distillery was still operational, has been in the bottle for almost three times as long as it has ever spent in the cask. After all, this…

Mosstowie was distilled at the Miltonduff Distillery between 1964 and 1981 by means of two Lomond stills. For me it is only the third time that I put this malt to the lips and the previous one was alr…

Glenlochy... I checked my archives and it turns out that I last tasted Glenlochy in 2014! Moreover, this is only the fourth malt of this distillery, which closed in 1983, that I taste. That's really…

In 2014 – an eternity ago in my experience – I already tasted a Port Ellen that was bottled by Douglas or Drumlanrig . However, it was a 27-year-old from 1983, bottled in 2010. The one that is now in the…

Two years ago Ian Macleod distillers, the new owner of Rosebank, launched a 30-year-old from the last stocks from 1990. I found it incomparably delicious. The expectations are therefore high for this…