This young Port Ellen, distilled in the last year that the (old) distillery was still operational, has been in the bottle for almost three times as long as it has ever spent in the cask. After all, this…

Mosstowie was distilled at the Miltonduff Distillery between 1964 and 1981 by means of two Lomond stills. For me it is only the third time that I put this malt to the lips and the previous one was alr…

Glenlochy... I checked my archives and it turns out that I last tasted Glenlochy in 2014! Moreover, this is only the fourth malt of this distillery, which closed in 1983, that I taste. That's really…

In 2014 – an eternity ago in my experience – I already tasted a Port Ellen that was bottled by Douglas or Drumlanrig . However, it was a 27-year-old from 1983, bottled in 2010. The one that is now in the…

Two years ago Ian Macleod distillers, the new owner of Rosebank, launched a 30-year-old from the last stocks from 1990. I found it incomparably delicious. The expectations are therefore high for this…

Very soon the Queen of the Lowlands will reopen because Ian Macleod Distillers is almost finished with the renovation of the Rosebank distillery. In the meantime, I'm happy to taste another cask strength…

Signatory Vintage has no less than 48 releases of Caperdonich on record and this is one of them from 2000, bottled in those beautiful but clumsy decanters in 2021. Particularly interesting and aromatic…

Slowly but surely, Caperdonich's cask are really starting to run out... This Speysider, built in 1897 as Glen Grant II, was closed in 2002 to finally being demolished in 2010. Surprisingly fresh and…

Oh, look now, my 10th Banff. This Speyside distillery closed its doors in 1983 and has since been demolished. There's only one official bottling, the 21-year-old from 1982 in the Rare Malts Selection,…

The first edition of the Teeling Pot Still in the Wonders of Wood series was matured on Chinkapin Oak and appealed to me, but I must confess that I am very much looking forward to this second edition…