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Torabhaig, founded in 2016 and up and running since 2017, may indeed be a very young distillery, but they are definitely going the extra...

(46% ABV, UCF, natural colour – 2017/2018 vintage, bottled 31.05.2021, 65% STR Red wine casks, 35% Ex-bourbon casks, 5040 bottles) After...

Ardnamurchan AD/04. 21:03 46.8% ABV (UCF, natural colour, 65% ex-bourbon casks and 35% ex- sherry casks, 17502 bottles) Back in late...

After last week’s Elijah Craig Barrel Proof review I’m keeping it in the US of A to conclude this series on +60% ABV whisky. We often...

After I digressed a bit last week about the OSWA’s, it’s time to put the focus of attention back to the series for November and talk...

Saturday last the first ever OSWA’s were revealed. In case this means absolutely nothing to you, OSWA is the abbreviation for Online...

Aberlour A’bunadh batch 57 – 60.7 % ABV, natural colour, UCF It seems as if there is some sort of weather changing button that gets...

Laphroaig 25 yo , 2017 release, 48.9% ABV, UCF, natural colour).Bourbon and 2nd fill oloroso cask matured. (Drample Impressions 29) If...

Caol Ila 9 year Old - Lady Of The Glen (2012 – 2021, caskn° 311196, Hogshead matured and finished in Xynisteri white Wine casks, 58.3%...

Johnnie Walker 12 year old Black Label Islay Origins (42% ABV, coloured like there's no tomorrow and chill filtered) After last week’s...

Of all the Scottish whiskyregions, Islay may well be the one that sparks the most imagination. The auras of Lagavulin, Ardbeg or ...

In 2019, the SWA (Scotch Whisky Association) altered the rules and regulations about which casks are allowed to be used for the...

Blair Athol 10 yo Wine Barrique The Whisky Broker, 2020 release, 56.5% ABV, UCF, natural colour, 266 bottles. Let’s wrap this up with an...

Part 3 of my series on wine cask matured/finished whisky takes me to Campbeltown. Indeed, it’s rather ‘not done’ to be doing a series on...

Part II in the wine cask series and from last week’s party in the southern Highlands at Deanston we take it rather up north, to the...