I was digging through a shelf of “to review” whiskeys and found this open bottle of Gambler 500 Whiskey sitting in the back. I don’t remember where it came from, likely a tasting, but looking on the back and seeing the infamous “produced and bottled by” I knew I had to grab it and dig […]
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SIA Blended Scotch is a product of passion. It started as an idea for the founder Carin who spent years working on her blend to bring it to market. It isn’t a product of any of the major houses, nor is it a side project of an Independent Bottler. The closest I could relate its […]
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Young Islays can be hit-or-miss depending on how active the cask is, so with a slight bit of trepidation that I dug into this Valinch and Mallet South Shore Islay Malt 8 Years. Emphasis on slight because I’ve had some good Islays as young as 5 years. I’ve also had a pretty good experience with […]
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This bottle of 1995 John Milroy Glen Grant 23 Years was supposed to be opened in March of 2020… and then the world came to pause. It was supposed to be opened for a Malt Nuts Glen Grant tasting event and instead it went back into the closet. It was then moved to the mountains […]
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Like the 81 Brora, this 1981 Duncan Taylor North Port 26 Years was opened earlier this year for my 40th birthday. And like Brora, it was closed in 1983 along with a slew of others. Several years after closing the distillery was demolished; a supermarket now resides as its tombstone. Though, unlike Brora, the whisky […]
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I opened this 1981 Old Malt Cask Brora 19 Years earlier this year to celebrate my 40th birthday. Besides being my birth year, 1981 was an interesting year for Brora and you can find ones that were lightly peated, like this one, or heavily peated like some of the ’81 Signatory bottlings floating around. It […]
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I’ve talked about Glenfarclas a lot on the site this year… so why stop now? Hello Glenfarclas 17 years review! Though seriously, there is no end in sight for the amount of Glenfarclas that will be covered here. So I hope you’re also a fan. Though, I have to give credit where it’s due. The […]
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I’ve been an Old Pulteney fan fora long time and I’m quite excited to get to sit down and review the Old Pulteney 15 Years today. Like many distilleries Old Pulteney shifted to making “named” NAS whiskies a couple years ago and like related offerings from other brands… they sucked. They didn’t have the life, […]
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Hailing from one of my favorite distilleries, the George Dickel Bottled In Bond Spring 2007 13 Years is exactly what its name says it is. And I love that. No surprises, no having to play detective, no having to rant. Just whiskey. Honest, straight up, easy to discern, and know what you’re drinking, whisky – […]
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The Bobby Burns cocktail is a super simple cocktail made from just three, well, technically four, ingredients. It combines the earthy-sweetness of a single malt Scotch with the complex herbaceousness of Benedictine and the warm sweetness of red vermouth. An expressed lemon peel adds some acid to help cut the sweetness a bit, making this […]
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