There’s a new batch from The Whisky Agency called Wave farewell to 2025. Today we’ll look at the non-peated single malts. All ...

Review of the Oban 12 Year Old, bottled in the 2025 Special Releases series. It is a classic single malt Scotch whisky matured in ex-bourbon casks.

Review of Big Peat Sinterklaas Edition, an Islay blended malt whisky from Douglas Laing. It is a limited edition for The ...

This is a limited edition of the well-known Glenfarclas 105. The back label explains that George S Grant used to bottled a cask strength whisky as a Christmas gift for staff and friends in the 1960s, ...

A Night on Earth in Scotland is the first Macallan release in an annual series that started off in 2021. It celebrates Hogmanay, Scotland’s New Year’s Eve. No surprise then that it contains whisky ...

Six cognacs today, from independent bottlers that are driving the entire revival of cognac among whisky lovers. We have well-known houses like Vallein Tercinier and Prunier, but we start this session ...

Nose: rather more impressive than the GlenAllachie 18 Years. Very fresh, with a bright fruitiness (banana, nectarine and mango) with marzipan and vanilla cake. Light mineral notes, grass and a peppery ...

Farm distillery Daftmill is steadily bringing out more summer / winter releases, coinciding with the farms quiet seasons. It’s made with Concerto barley grown and harvested on their estate, and ...

WhiskyNotes is a personal collection of impressions, written while searching for the ultimate single malt whisky. A work in progress, and a continuous exercise for the senses. I started it in 2008 ...

A sprint session again: 9 bottlings from Whisky AGE in Taiwan (including their Whisky Blues series). They are rather prolific but samples arrive late here in Europe, so it’s always a guess which ones ...

The 2025 Special Releases bring us an 18 year old Clynelish single malt. There’s more good news as they used refill casks for maturation. One thing stands out in the description though: it includes ...