In the past few months Fruitful Spirits released a series of new casks in their series called Exceptional Cask Selection. We ...

In August I will head for México, cabrones! While spirits are certainly not my primary objective there, I will pass through the Oaxaca region so I’d really like to visit one or two artisan palenques ...

Piacere Rinato is the Belgian spirits shop of former lawyer Niels Volckaert. He is focusing on cask strength cognac and ...

Review of the Talisker 39 Years 1987 bottled by Gordon & MacPhail in their Connoisseurs Choice Heritage series. The last ...

A new package with samples from the Thompson Brothers arrived. It includes a variety of releases from the past few months and we’ll start with some of the older whiskies: an undisclosed Highland Malt ...

Elixir Distillers acquired Tormore distillery in 2022, while building a new Portintruan distillery on Islay and not long after The Whisky Exchange was sold to Pernod. They started production under the ...

Nose: beehive notes aplenty. A lot of honey, yellow flowers, some pollen. Underneath there is a hint of peach, as well as some sharper lemon and green apple. Perhaps a little pineapple too. Rather ...

Benromach‘s innovative Contrasts series has a new member: a 12 Year Old single malt matured in first-fill bourbon casks before 26 months finishing in Côte-Rôtie wine casks. Wine casks are always ...

Wait, another 52 year-old after Angus’ Glen Garioch? That’s right. This Ben Nevis 1973 was bottled some time ago by the guys at Dornoch Castle. Nose: lots of fruit teas, in a way that reminds us of ...

LMK is Leung Man King (aka Brian) who lives in Hong Kong / Taiwan. A very relaxed guy who is well related to the Asian whisky scene. You may remember his name from my Macau festival article. Recently ...

Kanekou Okinawa is a Japanese whisky from Shinzato distillery, founded in 1846. Most of its history is in the production of Awamori, the traditional rice drink (black koji) from the region. They are ...