Cream sherry casks are still not very common for whisky maturation. I find that strange for different reasons: it combines ...
Review of Sherishòr 12 Year Old, a Pure Malt whisky triple matured in "real" old (ex-solera) sherry casks. Whisky with proper ...
Review of the Benrinnes 21 Year Old, one of Diageo's Special Releases 2024. It is a single malt Scotch whisky finished in ...
Review of two Calvados releases from Christian Drouin: a 1964 from the Sins series by Distilia, and a 32 year old bottling in ...
Review of the Royal Brackla 2008, a Scotch single malt bottled by The Whisky Jury for Wine4You. Great complexity for Brackla ...
Two weeks ago three new releases from independent bottler The Roots arrived in stores. Joren picked an old cognac from ...
Bruichladdich just released Octomore series 15. We picked the cornerstone expression 15.1 for this review. It is peated to 108.2 ppm and distilled from 100% Scottish Concerto barley. Maturation took ...
Nose: clean and very ashy, with plenty of phenols, a little menthol and a good deal of coastal notes. Vertical and pure, not as boldly peated as expected. Then bread crust and just a hint of round ...
Small-batch blender Turntable Spirits announced new releases in its music-inspired series. Track 6 is called All My Life. It consists of 81% malt whisky from GlenAllachie (ex-Woodford barrels), ...