It’s an incredible feeling when the Old Pulteney 21 year old is poured into your glass. It’s a legendary whisky, the best in the world in 2012, actually. To those…
I reviewed Ardbeg’s 10 year old last summer – possibly the moment where boy turned to man. My god, what a whisky. And we’d heard that the Ardbeg Uigeadail (pronounced…
Of the six contenders for ‘World Whisky of the Year’ only Ballantine’s is a blended Scotch whisky. We’ve already sampled their ‘Finest’ blend which, er, we thought was something of…
Charles Maclean’s Scotch Whisky: A Liquid History has much to commend it (and a full review will follow anon), but I couldn’t resist sharing this little snippet about polite society in Edinburgh…
Ballantine’s Finest was Jim Murray’s finest blended Scotch whisky with no age statement in 2012; not for the first time, I’m afraid I just don’t feel the same way about…
There is, some believe, a problem with the Scotch whisky industry in the 21st century. Ironically, it’s a byproduct of the industry’s success. ‘The industry’s in good health? What’s wrong…
By odd coincidence, the whisky that Raph got me for Christmas – Ardmore’s Traditional Cask – is made pretty close to the whisky that I bought him, Glendronach 12. They…
Not all whiskies come from distilleries, independent bottlers that specialise in whisky or the big blending houses. These big fish dominate the whisky pond (what a thought!), but are not…
Ach! Another infuriating whisky that promises so much only to be found lacking in almost all departments. Bell’s website lists some of the whiskies found in this blend and that…
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.…
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