Whisky Reviews

  One of the most evergreen lever that any spirits maker can always count on is to make an experimental expression - whenever, wherever, it's most...

   This was an Italian import Laphroaig 15 OB I got in a bottle split. The tax stamp dates this to the 1990s. The pre-Royal Warrant label narrows ...

  This is the 56th release from highly-regarded Belgian independent bottler The Whisky Jury. It has been a practice for independent bottlers to re...

キルブライド（ラフロイグ）1993 28年 シェリーカスク マッシュタン東京   I was really fortunate that the opportunity came up to get a dram of a whisky that I've really been extre...

    This bottling was all the rage, albeit briefly, a few years ago when it came out.... Laphroaig and Mizunara! I seriously wonder how long the M...

  Background: unicorn sighting at this year’s Limburg Whisky Festival. Serge Valentin gave it 98 points back in 2008, and there seem to be no oth...

  A cat-lobster hanging on to a bottle of Scotch - this is the sort of stuff that gets you noticed! And that's at least in part what the Thompson ...

  Scotch Review #38: Laphroaig 12yo 2006/2019 Hunter Laing Distiller's Art for HNWS (Taiwan) A friend kindly invited me to take a couple of dram...

  Lots of fanfare exist around Scotch’s of the 1980’s. Lores exist around them, and legends about them being the “real” Scotch constantly haunt th...

  Scotch Review #32: Undisclosed Islay (Laphroaig) 7yo Bottled for The Writing Club This is a young Laphroaig single cask, bottled at cask stren...

I should start out with a disclosure: I'm not a fan of Laphroaig's whiskies. The current output anyway. My first encounter with the Islay monster ...

SMOKEY AND PEATY       The 1960's is still widely accepted as the greatest period of Scotch whisky production. Many devotees (including Phil and S...