So far we’ve had reviews from the Old Pulteney 21, the Ardbeg Uigeadail, and Ballantine’s 17. The Scottish theme here comes to an end in our mini ‘best of’ series…
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…
I tried a measure of Glenmorangie’s Nectar D’Òr at the Manchester Whisky Festival last year. By that point, I was the wrong (or perhaps the right) side of about ten…
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…
Clinging to the north east of the Republic of Ireland, Cooley has only been functioning as a whiskey distillery since the late 1980s. Its conversion to whiskey production, challenged the…
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…
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.…
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…
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