I visited the Whiskyshine festival in Macao, tried some excellent whiskies, met wonderful people and wrote a few words about ...

Review of the Speyside single malt 18 Years, bottled by Saltire Rare Malts in their Cigar Malt series. It is matured in a PX ...

Review of the Penderyn 2015, a 10 year old single malt Scotch whisky bottled from bourbon cask 276, exclusive to The Whisky ...

Review of Blair Athol 1986, a 38 year old single malt whisky bottled by One8Nine in the Eternal Cycle series. Matured in a ...

There’s a new batch from The Whisky Agency called Wave farewell to 2025. Today we’ll look at the non-peated single malts. All ...

I’m always on the look-out for Oban releases. They’re rarely cracking, yet I have a bit of an underdog attraction to this distillery. The standard Oban 14 offers nice complexity for the price. In the ...

A lot of casks are presented as sherry casks even when they’re coming from outside of the sherry triangle. Especially the nearby D.O.’s Huelva and Montilla-Moriles are trying to surf the hype and ...

Glen Ord already appeared in the Special Releases in 2020, as an 18 year old from freshly charred hogsheads. The Singleton of Glen Ord 17 yo ‘Into the Blue’ (56,2%, OB Special Releases 2025, second ...

Farm distillery Daftmill is steadily bringing out more summer / winter releases, coinciding with the farms quiet seasons. It’s made with Concerto barley grown and harvested on their estate, and ...

The 2025 Special Releases bring us an 18 year old Clynelish single malt. There’s more good news as they used refill casks for maturation. One thing stands out in the description though: it includes ...

Nose: quite a maritime start, with fisherman’s rope and wet pebblestones, as well as some baker’s yeast and beer notes underneath. Some vegetal smoke, pears and hints of toffee. Then walnuts and hints ...