Powers John’s Lane Release is the six and final whiskey we’re sampling as part of our ‘world’s best’ series. After Scotland, India and the United States, we return a little…
Returning to a recent theme – independent whiskies bottled for retailers – we have here Marks & Spencer’s ‘Islay Single Malt Whisky Aged 12 Years’. (Yes, alright, I got a…
I’ve hopped over the Atlantic again (only figuratively, annoyingly) and now find myself in Kentucky. Elijah Craig, for those wondering, was a nineteenth century Baptist preacher from Virginia who ended…
Simply put, there’s so much that is so good about this: for a start, it’s non chill filtered, has no caramel colouring and is bottled at a pleasing 43% ABV.…
Diageo, we must presume, enjoy confusing whisky drinkers. Why else would they name whiskies produced at four different distilleries ‘The Singleton’? Depending on where you are in the world, your…
Cardhu is a whisky with an interesting tale to tell. Happily, we’ve already told it, so I can get down to the business of telling you a little more about…
The most northerly distillery in Scotland greets you with quite a nose. That is unsurprising, since its 21-year-old sibling was given an astonishing score of 97.5/100 in Jim Murray’s 2012…
Every distillery has a claim to fame: some are amongst the youngest in existence, others operate at the highest altitude; some are the most northerly, others the first to use…
The Highland Park distillery, Scotland’s most northerly whisky distillery, clings to the rugged Orkneys (making it our first non-Islay islander, for the attentive among you). At some point in the…
The first thing to be said about the Dalmore is that its designers have done a sterling job with the bottle. The stag’s head blazoned on the front calls to…
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