Review of the Glen Scotia 14 Year Old in the 'Icons of Campbeltown' series (release 2). A peated single malt whisky finished ...

Review of Holyrood Noir, a Scottish single malt whisky trilogy, using Burgundy yeast, Premier Cru yeast and Bordeaux yeast, with corresponding cask types.

Review of the 2011 'Caroll of the Bells', bottled by WhiskyUA to support Ukraine. This single malt Scotch whisky comes from ...

Nose: perfect high-pitched lemon notes, just a little damp cellar, dried heather and light grassy notes. Hints of dried herbs / hay and light honey. Then also a gentle puff of maritime smoke. Very ...

Millstone (Zuidam distillery) is paying a lot of attention to its sherry casks and they’ve also got hold of a couple of special things. One of them is this Pajarete Cask in which they matured a ...

While I was at WhiskyShine in Macau, rum was not my main focus, but this bottle of TDL 2003 definitely grabbed my attention. It is bottled in the Thirty-Five series, which consists of cute 35 cl cube ...

Nose: vegetal and chalky start. Celery stalks, leaven, green leaves and hints of clay. Mild mustardy notes. There’s a fruity undercurrant with stewed peaches and oranges, but also a strawberry & cream ...

Saltire Rare Malt is a new bottler from Scotland, grown from a long partnership between founders Nigel Heywood and Keith Rennie. They seem to focus on whisky between 10 and 20 years of age and they ...

It seems quite a few new independent bottlers have appeared in the past year or so. One8Nine is one of them. Founded in 2024 but the names behind the project may ring a bell. James Woodhead was ...

A single grain whisky in the Special Releases is not a new thing (a nice Cambus 40 Year Old springs to mind), but it is special coming from the malt distillery that is Teaninich. It marries ...

I’m always on the look-out for Oban releases. They’re rarely cracking, yet I have a bit of an underdog attraction to this distillery. The standard Oban 14 offers nice complexity for the price. In the ...