MALTYMISSION

Whisky is, I’m sure you’ll agree, a costly hobby. Even if you have ‘moderation’ written in big letters all over your collection, and...

As I said last week, it would be 50/50 on where we would eventually land for the final part in this series. It would either be a review...

Well in with this little series on world whiskies, and my take has  always been that there are lots and lots of interesting things...

In the build-up to a series such as this  - series where I step away from what I usually do (talking about and reviewing Scotch single...

There’s no denying that some of the more interesting ‘new’ countries in whisky can be found (from my European based point of view) on the...

By and large, scotch single malt whisky is what makes us tick. I get it, as this applies to me first and foremost. I’m guessing that...

Time to bring the first review series of 2024 to an end. As you probably know by now, I’m reviewing the bottles I picked for an intro...

It’s not that long ago, say a decade or so, that we were a bit strapped for choice if we had a sweet tooth for old school style whisky....

If you’ve read the previous blogpost, you’ll already know which whiskies I’ll be covering throughout this series. The basic idea is to...

First and foremost: Happy New Year to each and everyone of you wonderful people! May the best of 2023 prove to become the worst of 2024!...

Where to begin? This will (partly) be a rather self-centred piece, although it’s by no means meant to be about me. Apologies in any case....

In the first episode of this series, I considered the fact that there’s something to be said for a well- aged whisky, as it’s able to...

OK, I don’t mean it per se, but the title seemed catchy (clickbait-y even?), and I wanted to dedicate some time to whiskies with a higher...

What are the odds? I had more or less picked my ‘whisky of the year’ a good month or so ago, and unless something utterly and completely...

Some of my recent posts have been quite lengthy, and I ‘m well aware that when you’re set to just have a quick read, stumbling upon those...

It's preaching to the choir here, but the whisky community is on another level. Never ever in my entire life have I come across a more...

Ok, now that the OSWA’s are done and dusted for another year, and seeing how it is that time of year to start making ‘top 5’ or ‘top 10’...

2023 has been another year where we could welcome a whole lot of releases from new, 21st-century distilleries. It’s becoming quite hard...

(for very different reasons) To conclude this series and to go full circle as it were, I’m ending it by discussing two distilleries that...

In my previous review I pondered on what lifts a distillery from a mere whisky production plant into a celebrated icon and ambassador of...