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

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

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

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 ...

This is a limited edition of the well-known Glenfarclas 105. The back label explains that George S Grant used to bottled a cask strength whisky as a Christmas gift for staff and friends in the 1960s, ...

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 ...

Farm distillery Daftmill is steadily bringing out more summer / winter releases, coinciding with the farms quiet seasons. It’s made with Concerto barley grown and harvested on their estate, and ...

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 ...

Nose: quite a maritime start, with fisherman’s rope and wet pebblestones, as well as some baker’s yeast and beer notes underneath. Some vegetal smoke, pears and hints of toffee. Then walnuts and hints ...