In 2017 I moved from the first house my wife, children and I lived in together to our current home, which we bought from my mother when she moved into a condo. It’s a great house to grow up in, on a…

I like Springbank. I originally bought a 12 YO CS and a 12 YO Claret wood early in my whisky journey and I was not too impressed. After about a year in the back of my cabinet I “rediscovered” it. At…

I really like Caol Ila. One of my favourite Islay drams was an OB NAS CI cask strength that I believe I opened with @TAlexander in 2014. It was a 200 cc bottle. I have a couple stashed away, and I…

Wiser’s Red Letter is a favourite of one of my whisky buddies. I and @Nosebleed hunted several bottles of this for him over the years (and my brother in law even surprised me with a bottle of the 2015…

I write this review with a heavy heart. I woke this morning, Oct. 7, 2023, to the news of perhaps the largest terrorist attack since the one on Sept. 11, 2001. With family spread throughout Israel, I…

Mortlach holds an important place in my whisky journey. The man that kindled my interest in whisky seemed to like it. Of all the bottles in his collection, he had an open bottle of Mortlach from the…

In 2013 I was just 2 years into my whisky journey and still in the process of gathering as many different bottles as I could with the mistaken belief that I would at some point get around to opening and…

I just got back from a wedding in Calgary. I’m fairly convinced that with all the crowds I’m about to come down with COVID-19 or some other virus, so in honour of my friends and colleagues to my South…

It has become a tradition for me that on Canada Day I post a review of a Canadian whisky. Last year, of course, I had no sense of taste and smell in the month leading up to Canada day. So I wanted to…

My first taste of Octomore was back in December 2012 when I discovered the 4.1 in Calgary. I told the salesman that I had read about this in Toronto but had never seen it. He offered me a sample and it…