It seems quite a few new independent bottlers have appeared in the past year or so. One8Nine is one of them. Founded in 2024 but the names behind the project may ring a bell. James Woodhead was ...

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 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, ...

I’m always on the look-out for Oban releases. They’re rarely cracking, yet I have a bit of an underdog attraction to this distillery. The standard Oban 14 offers nice complexity for the price. In the ...

Here’s our review of The Whisky Exchange’s annual Christmas bottling, which we’ve enjoyed since 2018. Since a few years they are called A Good Old-Fashioned Christmas Malt, see our overview. For the ...

Nose: beautifully soft and rather fruity, with a honeyed layer of stewed fruits underneath a very thin veil of faded smoke. Sweetened lemon juice and some rather aromatic peaches. Then hints of orange ...

The latest bottling from the Wu Dram Clan is this Benromach 2003. It started as a single cask project, but it grew bigger as it turned out difficult to pick just one. The final composition comes from ...

In terms of cask innovation, this Talisker 14 Year Old is one of the most interesting choices in the 2025 Special Releases. This whisky was finished in virgin American oak. The casks have been toasted ...

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 ...