Whisky Reviews

    I came in knowing nothing about Old Rhosdhu but nosing from the bottle piqued my interest. It has an old intense dirty smokiness without any p...

     I was lucky enough to be poured a sample of this at a tasting event I attended. Not a big sample, but enough to slowly nurse and get meaningf...

    The Thompson Bros have rapidly carved out a presence as a blue-chip IB, with both fun experiments and old heavy-hitters like this refill sherr...

  Emmanuel Dron of The Auld Alliance in Singapore and Hideo Yamaoka of Whisky Mew in Japan are whisky legends in their own right. Now they have b...

  It is not everywhere one encounters any whisky at 43 years old, let alone Ben Nevis, which is better known for its vintages from 1996 onwards. ...

   I have long suspected I'm a fan of the Lowland style done well, to a level that is almost impossible to obtain from modern Glenkinchie/Auchent...

  My partner was keen on a tasting flight for her birthday, so I obliged with a lineup selected by a local whisky bar (a 9yo Clynelish, 1988 Benr...

  I've always wanted to get a Clynelish IB at a decent age for myself, but was deterred by the high prices, second only to the premium for the li...

  La Maison Du Whisky Singapore celebrated its 16th year with three single cask bottlings. The oldest, and the only one at cask strength (52.1%),...

  Signatory Vintage has bottled numerous 2013 vintage Ben Nevis. This specific expression is a vatting of two casks: hogsheads 426 and 430, bottl...

  Among the latest crop of Hidden Spirits releases released locally to me was a 14yo Caol Ila single cask, bottled at a nice 53.7% ABV in 2022. T...

  A relative passed me a half-finished bottle of this to try. Benriach is a distillery that I've had a patchy experience with, ranging from plast...