Found a heel of this Talisker sitting around, and thought we could do a side-by-side with the standard 10 Year Old. This 15 Year Old was part of the Diageo Special Releases in 2019. It is fully matured…

This bottle I purchased privately from a friend, then opened it when I conducted a professional tasting earlier in the fall. This batch was released in September 2017, directly following B517.The colour…

I recently picked this one up at the LCBO / Waddington's auction in November 2021. Like every Elijah Craig Barrel Proof, it is twelve years old; this one is Batch B517, which means it's the 2nd batch of…

This is the standard NAS bottling of Glenrothes - or at least, it used to be as I'm not sure they make this anymore (it's not on their website). Most official Glenrothes bottlings are vintage releases…

I believe this expression just came out today. It is the first in a new Lot 40 series called "Rye Explorations" - a cask strength 100% rye whisky finished for 17 months in first-fill peated single malt…

This new expression of Lot 40 came out last year - I believe it is the same recipe as the standard, except it is matured twice: first in new oak barrels with No. 2 char, then finished in new oak barrels…

High Coast is located in northern Sweden, at 63 degrees latitude (as the packaging keeps saying). I don't know much about them but they seem to focus solely on single malt. According to the website, they…

This is another Balvenie mini, this time the 15 Year Old Single Barrel. Unfortunately, the tube offers no cask info whatsoever. It is non-chill-filtered and (presumably) cask strength at 50.4%.The colour…

The colour is a deep caramel. Like many a Balvenie, the immediate hit on the nose is honey and toffee, with custard, baked apple, cinnamon and clove. Blood orange. Definite sherry note. Quite nutty. With…

Loch Lomond distillery in unique in that it distills both malt and grain whiskies. Their grain - referred to internally as Rhosdhu, harkening back to the old name for their single malt "Old Rhosdhu" …