Whisky Reviews

  Octomore Edition: 07.1, aged 5 years, 208 ppm, 59.5% abv.Octamore (Ochdamh-mòr) is Bruichladdich's super heavily peated product line offering, ...

  GlenDronach Cask Strength Batch 6, 56.1% abv.Matured in oloroso and PX casks. Heard GD made the Cask Strength series for it's affordability.Nos...

  Tomatin 14, Port Casks, 46% abv.Matured for 13 years in bourbon barrels before being finished for about a year or year and a half in Portugese ...

  Brora 35, 1977, 0717/2,944 bottles, 49.9% abv.A part of Diageo's 12th annual release, or Diageo's 2013 Special Releases. Actually, Diageo has b...

  Rosebank 21, 1992, 0465/4530, 55.3% abv.Matured in refill American oak casks, this is supposedly the third official release from the Lowland Ro...

  Aberlour 16, Double Cask Matured, 43% abv.Aberlour is Gaelic for "mouth of the chattering burn," a stream near the distillery, but it seems lik...

  The newly designed Laphroaig lineup: 25 year cask strength (2016), 30 year (2016), and 32 year (2015). Took me awhile, but I finally got all 3....

  The elusive Craigellachie 33!!! Beautiful bottle and I got it at a discount too! Yep, background is a nuclear power plant. Image courtesy of E...

    Macallan Edition No. 1, C8.V130.T19 2015-001, 48% abv.Supposedly a bottle count of 120,000 and marketed as Macallan's experiment, or showcase...

  Bowmore Darkest 15, 43% abv.The marketing on this bottling says the juice is matured in ex-Bourbon casks for 12 years and then spends the last ...

  Glen Scotia Double Cask, 46% abv.From the redesigned Glen Scotia of the Loch Lomond group. This double cask version is initially finished in fi...

  Glendronach 18 Allardice, 46% abv.This is a revisit, but at a different bar. I tasted this in the second half of 2017 and posted my notes and o...