Glen Scotia 21 / Glen Scotia Rum Cask Finish Campbeltown Festival 2019

Campbeltown whiskies are still kinda a mystery. I mean, I’ve reviewed a bunch. Some would even say quite a bit more than a bunch. When I first got into Scotch, I was on a tour and was given one whisky from each region, with the exception of Campbeltown. At the time they either didn’t have […]

Aberlour 100 Proof / Aberlour 21 1992 Old Particular Douglas Laing

“Is 90s Aberlour a thing?” It’s hard keeping up with what’s a “thing” in whisky or not. Like, do we care about BTAC anymore? Or is it too expensive and hard to get? Anything from Springbank tastes great, but also comes with a big price tag, so do we buy it still? And if the […]

Glendullan 23 1972 Rare Malts Selection

If I was to say I’m bad at trying all the distilleries, most people would (rightfully) call me out. What I am is bad at trying lower end whiskies when the chance arises because I only have so much liver in this life. I was already a multi-centenary Scotch reviewer when I first reviewed a […]

Glenury Royal 29 1970 Rare Malts Selection

There are three distilleries to have the “Royal” added to their name, and it turns out that actually means something. That’s quite the surprise in this doublespeak world of ours. Captain Robert Barclay could fit into the 20th century easily. He’d be a billionaire nut the likes of which we see too often and don’t […]

Linlithgow 17 1982 Signatory Vintage

Went out back in the before times and decided it was time to have something from my birth year. You know, that fun idea. So in picking a special dram I have to take some things into consideration: What do I not have on occasion? What can I pair to eventually have as a multi-review? […]

High West Midwinter Nights Dram – Act 6 / – Act 7

Thanks to /u/EvilAFI and /u/smoked_herring for these samples. Also thanks to Whiskey Consensus for the bottle pic. So far I’ve had each of the MWND. I originally tasted it solely for the following reasons: A friend had a bottle I’m a fan of High West interesting whiskey finishes I used to be a drama nerd and love Shakespeare Did […]

Old Pulteney 28 1988 Cask #10110

Thanks to /u/smoked_herring for sharing this dram with me. You walk into a store, and immediately there’s something there that you don’t pass down. Perhaps it’s mochi and you have a sweet tooth. Perhaps it’s a nice steak or a specific brewery/distillery release. When I have disposable income (what with that pesky need to eat and live […]

4 Ben Nevis Whiskies

There’s “honey barrel” years. There’s “weird casks”. There’s a distillery making a spirit completely differently than they normally do. Distillery warehouses get full, and eventually, it’s not just blenders buying their barrels, it’s independent bottlers. And frankly, I love it all. Each time a distillery has some ebb and flow it really is fun for […]

Bushmills SMWS 51.8 “Funky flowers and tropical fruits”

Recently we’ve seen a sudden jump in Irish whiskey coming out. Perhaps due to certain tariffs from a specific country caused by a dumb fight between airline manufacturers, perhaps due to the rise in demand for Scotch, or perhaps because there was a rumoured large amount of honey barrels released by a rich collector family. […]

Millstone Oloroso Sherry Special No.9

Thanks to /u/boyd86 for sharing this dram. There was a time where, if you drank whisky, statistically it was made in Ireland. Scotch wasn’t as big. And there was a time where if you drank Scotch it was a single malt (statistically) and underage or a blend, depending on the decade. We don’t know the next big […]