I visited the Whiskyshine festival in Macao, tried some excellent whiskies, met wonderful people and wrote a few words about ...

Review of the Penderyn 2015, a 10 year old single malt Scotch whisky bottled from bourbon cask 276, exclusive to The Whisky ...

Review of the Speyside single malt 18 Years, bottled by Saltire Rare Malts in their Cigar Malt series. It is matured in a PX ...

Nose: lovely elegance with plenty of subtleties. There is some herbal liqueur, tobacco and savoury sherry notes. Dark nuts and dried prunes. Some ripe apple underneath, but also herbal sauce with ...

Gouden Carolus is a highly respected beer from brewery Het Anker in Mechelen, Belgium. Besides a family brewing tradition spanning five generations, the family also distilled genever in a nearby ...

The Gold Spot 13 Year Old is the newest addition to the Spot colour range. Matured in bourbon and sherry casks and finished in Valpolicella Riciotto casks for 16 months. In general there are far too ...

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 ...

Agitator is a name we haven’t had before. This Swedish distillery released its first whisky in 2021 – check their website for more information. It handles things with a very open mind, often different ...

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 ...

Nose: heavily sherried and pretty sweet, with caramel notes, juicy figs, coffee candy, orange peels and hints of tobacco. Just a hint of flints and fireworks. Then a sourness appears, think ...