Review of Ambir, Embra and Pitch: three single malt whiskies from distillery in Edinburgh. Experiments with yeasts, malts and ...

Review of the Ben Nevis 1996, a 28 year old whisky bottled by Douglas Laing in the Xtra Old Particular (XOP) series, ...

Review of Sipper's Rum, a blended rum by The Whisky Jury. It includes rums of up to 20 years from Jamaica, Latin America and ...

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 ...

The Spring selection from The Whisky Exchange’s The Seasons series arrived. We already reviewed nine bottlings accross three seasons, which means the series now forms a full circle. This time we’re ...

Nose: very aromatic and elegant. Indeed, much like the 1985 this shows a lot of furniture polish, light tobacco and fragrant jasmine, along with lots of juicy fruits. Nectarines and white peaches, ...

Nose: classic South shore Islay, with hints of bandages, seaweed and iodine, leafy notes and hints of wormwood. A few herbal elements but also a nice sweet fruitiness underneath (peach?). Then a ...

In September 2024 Redbreast added a first 18 Year Old expression to its core range. It uses a combination of light and medium pot still distillates from Midleton distillery and fills the gap between ...

Simple assessments with concise tasting notes from a wide range of distilleries. Here is volume 6 of the Rapid fire whisky notes (check volume 5).