The Bowmore Devil’s Casks
Tasting notes: This is a right peaty beast! We’re going to need a bigger boat! Despite all the sherry in there, still the peat pervades without anything to mediate [...]
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The Mortlach 18 Year 1995 from The Exclusive Malts
Tasting notes: Dancing in the Czars winter palace cleaned with lemon juice that morning. I’m dressed like Stevie Nicks, except with cheesecloth robes. Now I’m using [...]
The Sons of Liberty Battle Cry Single Malt Whiskey–Bottle 1 of 465
Tasting notes: Sourball candies made with honey dew rind. Goat skin orthotics worn by a sockless Einstein, post-annus mirabilus but pre-annus horribilis. A paint roller [...]
The Craigellachie 12 Year 2000 from The Exclusive Malts
Tasting notes: A nose of candied popcorn dropped in rosewater-scented talcum powder. Dropped? More like: tossed with insouciance. Or perhaps more like: flung with a [...]
The Highland Park Thorfinn
Tasting notes: Let’s just make it clear from the very beginning. If Highland Park had begun distilling 1000 years earlier, none of the Nordic warriors would have gone [...]
The Glenmorangie Companta
Tasting notes: Oooh, the nose on this ruby red dram is utterly unique! Plums, prunes, prunes that were once plums, and plums that wish to become prunes again. It’s new [...]
The Latest Flight from the Whisk(e)y Explorers Club
We’ve been enjoying the Whisky Explorers Club for a long time. In fact, we’ve been fortunate to participate since early 2010. One of the things we have noted [...]
The Bushmills 10
Tasting notes: We’re impressed with the double-digit aged Bushmills, having enjoyed the thoroughly unique and distillery-only Bushmills 12 (thanks, Tom!). And yet I [...]
The Old Pulteney Navigator
Tasting notes: I’m a big fan of the oily Old Pulteney expressions. In part I envy their short journey up the squat still, lazily sliding down the arm into the spirit [...]
The Celtic Cask 1996 Aon Irish Whiskey
Tasting notes: Jasmine-scented peanuts, tropical flower potpourri, a burled wood instrument panel washed with tears of joy. Kentucky blue grass sheared by an antique [...]
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