The Bowmore 17 Year Old White Sands (travel retail exclusive)
Tasting notes:The Bowmore 17 Year Old White Sands, 43% abv, dropped like miraculous manna from heaven, by which I mean, Stephen put a generous dollop in a small bottle, and [...]
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The Glenallachie 12 Year Old
Tasting notes:The GlenAllachie 12 noses like fruit juice. Like a fruit cocktail. Like a steampunk machine made by a fruit dessicator who used dried fruits as cogs. Like a [...]
The Balblair 1991 3rd Release (1991-2018)
Tasting notes:Looking through our site, I see we’ve already reviewed 1991 Balblairs twice. One might easily say that the third time is the charm, and finally we’ll [...]
The Pittyvaich 29 Year Old 2019 Special Release
Tasting notes:The nose on the Pittyvaich 29 Year Old 2019 Special Release cold opens like a classic Saturday Night Live skit. (It’s a cold open, because the Malt Cave is [...]
The Bowmore 10 Year Old Limited Edition Inspired by the Devil’s Casks (travel retail release)
Tasting notes:The Bowmore 10 Year Old Limited Edition inspired by the Devil’s Casks series, opens sweetly, with sherry and red wine notes…that quickly turn to [...]
The Woodford Reserve Batch Proof (123.6 proof)
Tasting notes:The Woodford Reserve Batch Proof 123.6 begins perfectly. By which I mean that six is a perfect number: the product 1 x 2 x 3 = 6, and the sum 1 + 2 + 3 = 6, [...]
The Berry Bros. & Rudd Bunnahabhain 1989 24 Year Old
Tasting notes:The nose opens with daisy petals drizzled with bootstrap molasses. (Yes, John, I know it’s blackstrap molasses. Humor, man, humor.) There were also [...]
The Cardhu 14 Year Old 2019 Special Release
Tasting notes:The Diageo Special Release Cardhu 14 nose opens with a fruit phantasmagoria, a cake run riot, a Great British Baking Show special where Mary Berry and Paul [...]
The Westland Coldfoot American Single Malt Whiskey
Tasting notes:The Westland Coldfoot nose opens with the robust peaty, smoky aromas of outdoor woolen coats and leather chaps that’ve been worn sitting down around many a [...]
The GlenDronach 12 Year Old
Tasting notes:The GlenDronach 12 nose tantalizes with buttered plums being sautéed in a carbon steel wok (maple handles, unfinished) with fresh corn niblets, a sprinkle of [...]
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