Whisky Reviews

  The Cask of Yamazaki 1993, b. 2003, White Oak Hogshead No. 3P70284, Ohmi Aging Cellar Location 54-W-23-4, 12/216, 55% abv.Nose: honey and light...

  The bartender opened this new bottle since he found out I liked Laphroaig! From what I understand, so far Laphroaig is the only distillery to ha...

A very special 2017 bottling for the infamous Mash Tun Bar in Tokyo, a blend of approximately 70% Hanyu 1991 and approximately 30% Kawasaki 1982. ...

  This controversial and somewhat mysterious whisky is supposedly Chichibu distillate, purchased by Akkeshi, who shipped it to Scotland to be mat...

  Benriach 1971, 40 years, Bourbon Hogshead Cask No. 1947, 124/229, 49.8% abv.BenRiach Distillery Company Limited, formed by two South African in...

  Laphroaig 25, 2016 release, 48.6%. A vatting of second-fill oloroso sherry casks and american oak ex-bourbon casks. Part of the new re-design i...

  White Horse, 1970s?, EW0789603.After looking at numerous White Horse bottlings and googling White Horse bottle dates over the past 6 months, I ...

  Supposedly an experimental 1 year "vatting" of a juice from a young heavily peated 1999 Jura with a much older mature juice from the 1970s. Inte...

Elmer T. Lee, the master distiller at Buffalo Trace, released a new premium level bourbon in the mid-80's and named it after a previous master dis...

  Lagavulin 8, 200th Anniversary, 46% abv.This is a revisit. To celebrate their 200th anniversary, Lagavulin released a special 8 year scotch bas...

  Lagavulin 12, 2011, 57.5% abv.Nose: generally sweet, wood, smoke, salty, cereal, light fruit, grapes, grass. With time the smoke, salt, light f...

  Glenfarclas, The Family Casks, 1991-2017, Sherry Butt Number 209, 570 bottles, 57.0% abv.Nose: light bodied, a sweeter honeyed sherry, actually...