Whisky Reviews

Tasting Notes Nose: beeswax, vanilla, wool Palate: candle wax, watermelon rind, green apple skin, red bean paste Finish: candle wax, black pepper...

  Scotch Review #39: Glen Scotia 19yo 2000 Cadenhead's Warehouse Tasting   I won this at auction for a very affordable price as far as older sing...

  It’s very heartwarming to see a bustling Japanese craft whisky scene producing its first fruits – a wave of young upstarts finally ready to push...

  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...

  Scotch Review #37: TWE Black Friday 2020 22yo (Ardmore)   An undisclosed 22yo understood to be Ardmore bottled by The Whisky Exchange for 2020...

  Scotch Review #36: Arran 1996 22yo TWA "Blackwater" bottled for Taiwan   I saw an unopened bottle of this at a local bar priced decently per po...

  Wouldn’t it be hilarious if I started out by saying this was the best Scotch I’ve ever had? You laugh, but as a reviewer, it would almost feel a...

  Scotch Review #35: Glenallachie 25yo 1992 56.0% (Cadenhead Small Batch)   An ex-bourbon Glenallachie single cask laid down in the same year and...

  Scotch Review #34: Glenfarclas 15 After a long streak of single casks and fringe OBs reviewed by me, we finally get to a staple age-stated OB:...

  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 #33: Tamnavulin 2009 10yo Bottled for The Writing Club   This is my last review of a good flight I had of single casks at The Wri...

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