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 ...
Balblair 17 Years, Pulteney 23 Years, Glen Toon 8 Years, Caol Ila 15 Years and Ardnamurchan 10 Years, bottled by Decadent ...
In this article I go over 526 reviews from 2025 and list some of the highlights. What were the whiskies, cognacs, rums and ...
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 ...
Nose: ripe plums and damsons with chocolate brownie, hazelnuts and sweet praline. Also wood spice like clove and cardamom. Maybe not a sherry bomb, but definitely sherried. Then sultanas and wine ...
Spheric Spirits is a young indie bottler from Germany, started by Benedict and Claudio. They have a slightly edgy / flashy branding (check the website) – I like the vibrant colours on the labels but ...
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 ...
Nose: a rather oily nose, with sweet malty notes, Demerara sugar and wax candles. Hints of cake and gentle fruits (yellow plums). A few nutty notes, candied ginger and whiffs of leathery. Something of ...
I’ve reviewed four Springbank whiskies from Decadent Drinks in the past couple of years. Always high quality (90+ points) although the price often tempered my enthusiasm a little. After the 1996 ...
Of all French spirits, Calvados is the one I have least experience with. In short, it is an brandy made from distilled cider (up to 200 varieties of apples and pears are allowed). It can be distilled ...