Balblair 17 Years, Pulteney 23 Years, Glen Toon 8 Years, Caol Ila 15 Years and Ardnamurchan 10 Years, bottled by Decadent ...

In this article I go over 526 reviews from 2025 and list some of the highlights. What were the whiskies, cognacs, rums and ...

Review of the Millstone 2018 Pajarete Cask, a single malt whisky from Zuidam distillery matured in a Paxarete cask from ...

Review of the T.D.L. 2003, a 22 year old rum bottled by 35Whisky (Lucky Choice) for Chinlam in China. A lovely rum from ...

It seems quite a few new independent bottlers have appeared in the past year or so. One8Nine is one of them. Founded in 2024 but the names behind the project may ring a bell. James Woodhead was ...

A single grain whisky in the Special Releases is not a new thing (a nice Cambus 40 Year Old springs to mind), but it is special coming from the malt distillery that is Teaninich. It marries ...

Nose: warm and totally immersive waxy notes. Lots of paraffin and beeswax, along with ripe pineapple notes and some mango candy. Stewed quinces and pears. Sweet mint and dried wildflowers. Then also ...

I’m always on the look-out for Oban releases. They’re rarely cracking, yet I have a bit of an underdog attraction to this distillery. The standard Oban 14 offers nice complexity for the price. In the ...

A lot of casks are presented as sherry casks even when they’re coming from outside of the sherry triangle. Especially the nearby D.O.’s Huelva and Montilla-Moriles are trying to surf the hype and ...

Glen Ord already appeared in the Special Releases in 2020, as an 18 year old from freshly charred hogsheads. The Singleton of Glen Ord 17 yo ‘Into the Blue’ (56,2%, OB Special Releases 2025, second ...

The 2025 Special Releases bring us an 18 year old Clynelish single malt. There’s more good news as they used refill casks for maturation. One thing stands out in the description though: it includes ...

The latest bottling from the Wu Dram Clan is this Benromach 2003. It started as a single cask project, but it grew bigger as it turned out difficult to pick just one. The final composition comes from ...