Happy New Year! Let's go over 2024 once again and make a list of our personal highlights before we start a new year of whisky ...
No less than 12 rums in this rapid fire session. There's Enmore, Zuidam, Rhum JM, Caroni, TDL, JMC, Hampden, Long Pond, Los ...
Review of Gold Spot 13 Year Old 'Generations Edition', a limited release from Mitchell & Sons in their Irish whiskey series.
Nose: a lot of stewed apples and sweet orange juice, with nectarines, quinces and orange peels. Quite jammy, with herbal ...
Edrington blending stocks have been around for a couple of years now. They got on my radar in 2016 and they were soon rumoured to be malt bases, pre-destined to become a premium blend at some point ...
Review of Inquota, a Mountain rye whisky made in Italy by Villa de Varda. A product that is closer to grappa than to whisky ...
Talisker 45 yo ‘Glacial Edge’ (49,8%, OB 2023, 2455 btl.) Talisker 44 yo ‘Forests of the Deep’ (49,1%, OB 2022, marine oak casks, 1997 btl.) Jura 29 yo 1992 (47,2%, Whisky Age Ltd for Whisky Picnic ...
Aberfeldy 7 yo 2014 (57,7%, Cut Your Wolf Loose 2021, refill hogshead #581, 266 btl.) Tamdhu 14 yo 2008 (60,8%, Cut Your Wolf Loose 2022, hogshead #2331, 190 btl.) Caol Ila 12 yo 2009 (59,9%, Cut Your ...
Nose: starts really well. Fruity notes aplenty, like pineapple, kiwi and papaya. Pink bananas. Quite creamy, almost showing a white chocolate note. Then a nice mineral / waxy side and subtle minty ...