Review of Compass Box Secrets of Smoke, a blended malt from Compass Box, which consists of spirit from Laphroaig, Ardmore, ...

Nose: light and friendly. Plenty of crisp apples and pears, along with some lime and foam bananas. Then some grassy and blossomy touches, along with spring honey. There’s some white pepper tingle and ...

Nose: plenty of waxy notes – great. Lemon tea with a dollop of honey, along with unripe nectarine, tangerines, green plums and hints of mango. Then light mineral hints and subtle dried herbs, as well ...

Review of the Islay 1990, a 34 year old undisclosed Laphroaig single malt bottled by Signatory Vintage for the Wu Dram Clan.

Review of the Bowmore ARC-54, a 54 year old single malt Scotch whisky from Islay. It is a 1968 vintage, bottled with Aston ...

Living Souls is the brand of a new bottler Whisky Souls Ltd, founded by three people with a track record at Douglas Laing, Tullibardine and Loch Lomond Group, among others. They released a first set ...

Ledaig Hebridean Moon is the first cask strength version of their Ledaig 10 Year Old. It is also interesting because it contains the first spirit drawn from Tobermory’s new still, installed in 2014.

Nose: a nice fruity core, with stewed peaches and apricots, ripe apples, quince jam and honey. Mild hints of copper coins and light spearmint. Moderate rancio. Then some sweet almond milk. It’s quite ...

In November 2023 the book The Distillation of Whisky 1927–1931 hit the shelves , released by botllers James Eadie. Although it steps outside their usual territory, the book follows their first release ...

The Wild Blue is a new limited edition from Talisker. It underlines the distillery’s salty and smoky DNA with a 16-month finish in South African red wine casks, used in wineries near the Atlantic ...

Gordon & MacPhail just released the fifth and final release in the Mr George Legacy. The 1953, 1957, 1958 and 1959 reached some of the highest scores on this blog. This series saw the light in 2021 ...