Another fine showing from Macallan here – the folks at the distillery must be impressed with themselves. The 10 year old is amongst my favourite whiskies, and expectations were raised,…
Normally I scout around for an interesting fact about the distillery or the village before commencing the review. Such information about Aberlour is nonexistent, which is in itself interesting, I…
BenRiach, just north of the centre of Speyside – not that far from Glen Moray, or Mannochmore, which produced Loch Dhu – has had a vexed history. While it was…
Sometimes the box is enough to give something of the whisky away: the bright green of a Glenfiddich 12 perhaps betrays its fruitiness. Similarly, the white, clean simplicity of an…
After an interval of some months, we return to the Far East in the form of the Yoichi 10. Yoichi is produced by Nikka, one of Japan’s whisky conglomerates (as…
‘This is the quintessential Speyside whisky’, I was told as I bought it. ‘You can’t go wrong with it.’ So with some anticipation, I parted with £25 of the government’s…
We thought that as it’s a special day (February 29, in case you’re not following) we’d present you with a slightly unusual post, going into a little more detail about…
Laphroaig’s ten-year-old expression greets you with a full-throated shout of peat. There’s no getting away from it: if you strongly dislike peaty smoke, you won’t like this. But I don’t…
There’s a reason that Glenmorangie is Scotland’s best-selling single malt and among the most critically acclaimed. It’s light and fresh, dangerously drinkable, while preserving a complexity that invites the drinker…
If the rising sun on the packaging or the slightly industrial bottle (reminiscent of a school chemistry lab) has you expecting an inferior malt, think again. The complexity of the…
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