Review of Ambir, Embra and Pitch: three single malt whiskies from distillery in Edinburgh. Experiments with yeasts, malts and ...

Review of the Ben Nevis 1996, a 28 year old whisky bottled by Douglas Laing in the Xtra Old Particular (XOP) series, ...

Nose: very aromatic and elegant. Indeed, much like the 1985 this shows a lot of furniture polish, light tobacco and fragrant jasmine, along with lots of juicy fruits. Nectarines and white peaches, ...

Nose: ripe plums and damsons with chocolate brownie, hazelnuts and sweet praline. Also wood spice like clove and cardamom. Maybe not a sherry bomb, but definitely sherried. Then sultanas and wine ...

The Spring selection from The Whisky Exchange’s The Seasons series arrived. We already reviewed nine bottlings accross three seasons, which means the series now forms a full circle. This time we’re ...

Sipper’s Rum is the ‘ongoing’ rum release from The Whisky Jury. This blended rum contains rums up to 20 years old, from 3 parts of the world. The label mentions Jamaica, Asia and Latin America, but ...

Simple assessments with concise tasting notes from a wide range of distilleries. Here is volume 6 of the Rapid fire whisky notes (check volume 5).

Nose: classic South shore Islay, with hints of bandages, seaweed and iodine, leafy notes and hints of wormwood. A few herbal elements but also a nice sweet fruitiness underneath (peach?). Then a ...

Flensburg Rum Company (Oldman Spirits) has a very open look at the rum scene. They have some belters from established rum producers but they also released interesting names that apparently no other ...