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2018 release. 62.4% ABV, 1st fill bourbon, wine and sherry casks, natural colour, UCF. 9000 bottles Ok, let’s get straight down to it....

2020 release, 47.8% ABV, NC, UCF, original retail price around £100, now ‘slightly’ more on secondary. After last week’s endeavour with...

Or is the hunt better than the catch? “Unicorn whisky”. Most of us will immediately know what is meant by this: very hard to find,...

Triple Distilled, NAS, UCF, Natural Colour, 57.2% ABV Single Cask Bottled for The Whisky Mercenary in September 2021 The final whiskey in...

Namibian whiskey, 46% ABV, no information regarding colouring or chill filtration. Namibian whiskey: apparently, it’s a thing. As such,...

Oddball whiskies, part 1: Corsair Oat Rage (single pot still whisky, 50% ABV, natural colour, UCF) Just before you start worrying I’m...

Triple distilled blended Irish whiskey, 43.6% ABV, Unchill filtered, might be coloured To conclude Irish whiskey month, let’s take it...

47% ABV, natural colour, unchill filtered, matured in ex Kentucky bourbon and Oloroso casks When talking about the new wave of Irish...

2021 release, 46% ABV, Natural colour, unchill filtered, Grand Cru Edition, Reichsrat Von Buhl, Riesling cask finish, 3000 bottles (app....

Boann Distillery - 5 yo Irish single malt, triple distilled, 46% ABV, Natural colour, unchillfiltered, 2020 release Seeing how my...

(Royal Oak Distillery, 44.3% ABV, ex-bourbon and ex-sherry casks, presumably coloured and chill filtered, 2021 release) The title says it...

46.3% ABV, natural colour, UCF, bottled 2019. Matured in ex bourbon casks, finished in sherry casks (drample impressions #36) To end this...

On this journey through peated malts not originating from Islay, I’ve looked at 2 Highland whiskies and a Japanese so far. Nearing the...

While there are easily dozens of peated, non-Islay Scotch whiskies to choose from to do a series on peated whisky not made in Islay, I’m...

Glendronach Traditionally Peated (48% ABV, natural colour, likely chill filtered, 2020 bottling, matured in PX, oloroso and port casks)...

Where do you set the price bar when buying bottles? This is not only a question that will get a different answer depending on who you...

Loch Lomond Inchmoan 12 yo (46% ABV, UCF, recharred American oak and refill bourbon barrels, 2019 bottling) After what turned in to a...

There's more to peat than meets the eye... Peat: for many, it’s a love it or leave it affair. Tasting notes like ‘Burning Hospitals’,...

After visiting 4 Speyside distilleries in the first part of this series, I’m now paying my full and undivided attention to the other 4...

Kicking off 2022 with 4 Speyside whisies I can’t help but wonder how much longer independent bottlers Dràm Mòr will remain one of the...