Edition Spirits Glen Keith 1995 (21 year old) 53.8%...

Edition Spirits Ardmore 1996? (20 year old) 50.1%...

Hunter Laing Old Malt Cask Ardmore 1996? (21 year old) 50%...

Edition Spirits Glenrothes 1996 (20 year old) 53.5%...

A.D Rattray Arran 2011 (5 year old) 57.3%

Bourbon Cask No 4/ Dist 2011 Btl: 2016/ Tasted: Nov 2016

The alcohol level makes the noise feel pretty tight, however it’s quite gristy with white fruit and balsamic, malty notes. Slightly herbal with late vanilla, apricot and slightly perfumed floral notes.

The palate is tight and gristy with white fruit, vanilla, malt and developing aromatic barley. The finish is a little masked by the alcohol but it does show some milk and white chocolate and sweet coffee and toffee.

A drop of water makes it gorgeously citric with tangerine, orange blossom,...

Hunter Laing Old Malt Cask Glen Ord 2004 (12 year old) 50%...

Hunter Laing Old Malt Cask Glenrothes 1996 (20 year old) 50%...

Mackillop’s Choice Laphroaig 1990 (22 year old) 52.1%

Bourbon Cask 11731/ Dist: Oct 1990 Btl: Mar 2013/ Tasted: Apr 2013

The nose opens with a gentle ashy brininess and a huge chunk of shimmering vanilla oak. That oak is incredibly chunk and adds a delicious vanilla weight and it is pretty oaky by ‘phroaig standards but there is plenty of balancing exotic fruit – greengage, kiwi, green pineapple, green banana and a touch of barley. With time some smoked meat becomes evident along with a light medicinal, tcp note and a touch of iodine. Finally the oak pushes through and...

808 Drinks Company Blended Scottish Grain 40%...

Mackillop’s Choice Scapa 1991 (23 year old) 55.9%

Bourbon Cask 1191/ Dist: Mar 1991 Btl: Sept 2014/ Tasted: Nov 2016

A dark, malty and violety nose. Quite coastal and salty. Very much old skool Scapa with mature oak, and almost Tequila-esque, pulped, peppery fruit. Now that’s a unique nose! Superbly balanced and mature with late hints of earth, wood smoke, dunnage, tobacco and vanilla pod.

The palate is full and malty, but like the nose it displays that wonderful, old Scapa coastal, windswept character. Tobacco laced baked fruit, earth, wood smoke and grippy coffee’d tannins follow. Extremely salty on the...

I dag var det slipp av nye produkter på Vinmonopolet. Tradisjonen tro slippes nye produkter i hovedsak seks ganger i året; den første fredagen i annenhver måned. I januar er det dog den andre fredagen som gjelder. Det er på disse dagene hundrevis av nye produkter som legges ut for salg. Det aller, aller meste […]...

Cragganmore Limited Release (Special Releases 2016), NAS, ABV Here is my second review of Diageo Special Releases 2016 whisky. The Cragganmore Limited Release (Special Releases 2016) was released with a limited run of 4932 bottles. This is the sixth time Cragganmore is included in the annual Special Releases line-up. This is a whisky with no […]...

Gjoleid Blindpassasjeren, 4 YO, 47 % Here is the second new Norwegian whisky in two weeks. Not bad, not bad at all! Again I am looking at a release from Arcus, using the Gjoleid brand. The Gjoleid Blindpassasjeren again uses the slightly unusual mashbill of light malted barley, malted wheat, and malt lightly smoked using logs of […]...

Lagavulin 1993 Islay Jazz Festival 2011, 18 YO, 55,4 % A kind soul gave me a sample of this whisky a few weeks ago. So here are my views on the Lagavulin 1993 Islay Jazz Festival 2011. As the name suggests this whisky was released in conjunction with the Islay Jazz Festival in 2011. This whisky was […]...

William Cadenhead 12 YO Blended Scotch – Sherry Cask, 46 % Scotland’s oldest independent bottler, W. M. Cadenhead, recently released a new series of ongoing products. One of these new products is the William Cadenhead 12 YO Blended Scotch – Sherry Cask. I found some information about this bottling on the William Cadenhead whisky shop online: “This blended whisky […]...

Gjoleid Praksis 1.1, 4 YO, 47,4 % Finally the wait is over. We have new products released from Norwegian distillery (giant) Arcus, under the brand Gjoleid. They have prviouslyt released two whiskies (see here and here). In november 2016 they released three new expressions. The first one under review, the Gjoleid Praksis 1.1 is a […]...

Glen Scotia Victoriana, NAS, 51,5 % The Campbeltown distillery Glen Scotia have seen a lot of positive change and investment over the past few years. I have now tried one of their new core range products, the Glen Scotia Victoriana. The new core range was introduced in 2015, so I am little late to the […]...

Michter’s 10 YO Straight Rye, 46,4 % A brief review today, but I am sure you can manage. I am reviewing the Michter’s 10 YO Straight Rye. This is a single barrel release, and it is the release that came out in 2016. It was bottled on 2014-02-24, with a total outturn of 100 bottles, from […]...

Redbreast 21 YO, 46 % Here is a real treat from Ireland. The Redbreast 21 YO was released in 2014, and has won numerous awards as the best Irish whiskey and the best Irish single pot still whiskey. It is produced at The Midleton Whiskey Distillery Co. The Redbreast 21 YO has been matured in a combination […]...

I have started working on my summary of the whisky year 2016, but before I publish that article I have the list of januari releases in Norway ready. These whiskies will be made available to buy in Norway on Friday januari 13. Hopefully not an unlucky 13! There are 47 new releases this time around, […]...