Review of the Caol Ila 2007, a 17 year old Islay single malt whisky bottled by Halcyon Spirits. Very pure, coastal and ...

Review of the Oban 10 Year Old, a single malt whisky bottled in the 2024 Special Releases series from Diageo. A cask strength ...

Review of the Dailuaine 2011, Ben Nevis 2013 and Caol Ila 2008 bottled for The Whisky Show 2024 by The Whisky Exchange. Three ...

Review of the Teeling Duvel Cask, an Irish single malt whiskey finished in Belgian Ale casks from Duvel Moortgat. Batch 3 ...

Review of the Talisker 8 Year Old, a single malt Scotch whisky from the Special Releases 2024 series. Cask strength whisky, ...

North Star Spirits is a bottler that is a little underrepresented on this blog. They seem to focus on certain markets, or maybe our networks are just different. I just don’t come accross their ...

Two official Arran bottlings. The first is the second release in the Signature series. In a first phase this rested in ex-bourbon casks and then in peated Koval Quarter casks. The other one is a ...

Cú Dhub means Black Dog in Gaelic (although thre are some doubts about the spelling). This whisky is marketed as the Black Blended Malt Whisky. It takes inspiration from Loch Dhu, a cult bottling from ...

Murray McDavid was originally founded by Mark Reynier (ex-Bruichladdich), Simon Coughlin and Gordon Wright (ex-Springbank), but since 2013 it is the bottling brand of Aceo Ltd, one of the larger ...

Nose: as expected plenty of barley and granola here, with a sweet edge. Baguettes and light honey. Then hints of lemon oil, oranges, and grapefruit peels, mint leaves and hay. Always a chalky / earthy ...