Whisky Reviews

Fruity and Spicy       Since my earlier reviews of the Shizuoka Prologue K and Prologue W, well-meaning connoisseurs have expressed some concern ...

FRUITY AND SPICY     (Image Source: Whisky.com)   Few distilleries carry with them such a discordance of opinions as the Taiwanese distillery, Ka...

SMOKEY AND PEATY     The village of Port Charlotte (Image Source: Bruichladdich)   2 miles from the Bruichladdich Distillery is a small village s...

FRAGRANT AND FLORAL       “The older the whisky, the better the whisky!” That is the first of many widely-held assumptions that Bruichladdich Di...

RICH AND ROUND       “Why are you making the richest man on Earth richer? Make yourself rich!” His father’s words prompted Bryan Do to leave Micr...

  Was lucky to grab this inaugural bottling from Lochlea late last month and tried a sample on the Burns night release whilst I was at a tasting ...

  I’ve got no witticisms, rambling historical anecdotes, or pseudo-insights today. Only the observation of it’s damn cold at night now in the Car...

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 ...

  Today, we review a Nikka series very often seen in Japanese convenience or grocery stores.    Pour a Nikka Black, and white people in Tudor-era...

  Great evening at @milroysofsoho trying some amazing @craigellachie drams. Craigellachie 13 - fruity on the nose, definitely can smell the pinea...

Perhaps the most heavily-anticipated set of Nikkas that came out of 2021 was Volume 1 of Nikka’s Discovery Series. The series intends to give fans...

RICH AND ROUND     This is an 18-year-old Longmorn single malt, part of the Speyside distillery’s core range. The whisky was matured in a combinat...