Nose: a mild sooty note in the background, along with herbal tea, raw wool and a hint of inner tubes. Whiffs of engine grease ...

Review of the Benromach Contrasts - High Enzyme, an experimental single malt whisky made with a special kind of malted barley ...

Review of the Springbank 1994, a 30 year old single malt Scotch whisky bottled by Distilia in their series 'The Sins'. Funky ...

Review of the 'Gone Grant' 1994, a 30 year old single malt whisky (probably from Caperdonich distillery) bottled by Decadent ...

Nose: mild coconut with baked apple and rich toffee notes. Then fresh vanilla and a touch of fig syrup. Not a wood monster, good. Cinnamon and quite a lot of marzipan sweetness. Some caramelized corn.

The Unchill-filtered range from Signatory Vintage is an entry-level selection. While a bottling strength of 46% used to be a nice selling proposition back in the early 2000s (in fact, the first ...

Nose: clementines on syrup, sweet pears, blackcurrants and whiffs of guava as well. Round, but also showing a little rubber and varnish. Then there’s also a different side that reminds us of grain ...

Malternative Belgium just bottled two 5th anniversary bottlings. Actually it’s a quartet because there is also a pair of Pineau des Charentes releases. We’ll review these in a separate post if you don ...

Belgian distillery Filliers recently started the sixth chapter in their history, with Benoit Filliers as the next generation in the company management. He’s clearly looking at things with an open mind ...