8.9
2 min read
A review of the Daftmill 2011 Winter Batch Release and a Daftmill 2011 Single Cask for the Netherlands.
8.9
6 min read
This is NOT a review of the Thy Distillery 2019 5 Years Cask #269, but rather some insight into why I chose this cask to be bottled exclusively for the Dutch market.
8.4
3 min read
A review of two recent releases from Bus Whisky Distillers, including Batch 27 of their Single Malt and a limited Pedro Ximénez edition.
8.5
3 min read
A review of three new Ballindalloch for the Benelux, the Vintage 2015, a 2016 Single Ex-Bourbon Barrel and 2015 Single Ex-Sherry Butt.
1 min read
Instead of starting its life in a common bourbon cask, it ended it's life in one. For the first 10 years, this Kilkerran was tucked away in a Fino cask, while it spent the final 5 years in a re-fill bourbon casks.
2 min read
Springbank Week on Words of Whisky ends with a bang! Time for a head-to-head between the two new Springbank 21yo Single Casks for The Netherlands and Belgium.
1 min read
Benromach released a new super rare single cask from 1974, which has spend 41 year maturing in a sherry butt. Is it as good as the recent 35 year old?
1 min read
I was told beforehand that I'd either love or hate this single cask Craigellachie 12yo. That turned out to be true.
1 min read
"What?! Just a couple of days ago this guy whined about how terrible his visit to Edradour was and now he's posting a review of a whisky from that distillery? I'm not sure what to make of this."
1 min read
This one makes me want to go out and buy a lot more Bladnoch. The profile of this distillery seems to agree with me.
2 min read
How do we know for sure that cask strength whiskies are actually bottled at cask strength? The term cask strength should be pretty self explanatory, but the same can be said for single cask, and obviously we were wrong about that one.
