While Hampden has a long history, sherry casks are a new thing for the distillery. We’ve had some examples from The Colours ...

Review of the Glann Ar Mor 2014 (Journal des Kirsch) and Kornog 2018 (for Wu Dram Clan). Two great single malts from France.

Review of the Bunnahabhain 1980, a 45 year old single malt whisky bottled in Japan. It has a melancholic label illustration by Japanese artist Maito Yamamoto.

Review of a Smögen 2013 PX, as well as five other whiskies and rums from Cask Le Sens and Whisky Concerto, like Ardbeg and Glen Elgin.

Strathisla 34 yo 1989 (45%, Malts of Scotland for The Whisky Dreamers 2024, sherry hogshead, 110 btl.) Littlemill 34 yo 1990 (50,7%, Malts of Scotland for The Whisky Dreamers 2025, bourbon barrel, 188 ...

While I was at WhiskyShine in Macau, rum was not my main focus, but this bottle of TDL 2003 definitely grabbed my attention. It is bottled in the Thirty-Five series, which consists of cute 35 cl cube ...

Millstone (Zuidam distillery) is paying a lot of attention to its sherry casks and they’ve also got hold of a couple of special things. One of them is this Pajarete Cask in which they matured a ...

Nose: ripe plums and damsons with chocolate brownie, hazelnuts and sweet praline. Also wood spice like clove and cardamom. Maybe not a sherry bomb, but definitely sherried. Then sultanas and wine ...

A single grain whisky in the Special Releases is not a new thing (a nice Cambus 40 Year Old springs to mind), but it is special coming from the malt distillery that is Teaninich. It marries ...

Nose: sweet fruits (apricots, pears) with honey, as well as a more oxidized hint of dried fruits, bruised yellow apples and caramel. Then hazelnuts and vanilla, along with raisins and hints of buttery ...

I’ve reviewed four Springbank whiskies from Decadent Drinks in the past couple of years. Always high quality (90+ points) although the price often tempered my enthusiasm a little. After the 1996 ...

Nose: typical warm, varnished grain whisky. Tinned pineapple, hints of guava and caramel cream. Vanilla custard. Bananas flambéed and rummy notes – Barbados style. Some charred oak provides a spicy ...