Review of Kiyokawa 'The Cask', the first single malt whisky from Kiyokawa distillery in Japan. It matured in a Pedro Ximénez ...
Nose: a typical mix of lemon and lime notes, tarte tatin and fresh barley. Also vanilla and a minty / juniper note (almost medicinal) that I find very Japanese. Then some grassy notes, eucalyptus ...
Review of Power's Gold Label - Distiller's Cut, a basic Irish whiskey that is a blend of pot still and grain whiskey.
Review of the Tobermory 30 Years 1995, bottled by Murray McDavid in the 'Mission Gold' series, exclusively for Wu Dram Clan.
Review of the LRV 2001, a 23 year old armagnac bottled by Grape of the Art. It comes from LaRoche-Vacquié, a producer in Haut ...
Review of the Redbreast Small Batch 20 Years - Oloroso Cask, an Irish whiskey bottled for The Whisky Exchange. It is matured in sherry casks.
A lot of casks are presented as sherry casks even when they’re coming from outside of the sherry triangle. Especially the nearby D.O.’s Huelva and Montilla-Moriles are trying to surf the hype and ...
A single grain whisky in the Special Releases is not a new thing (a nice Cambus 40 Year Old springs to mind), but it is special coming from the malt distillery that is Teaninich. It marries ...
Cadenhead’s 7-Stars is a historic brand of blended Scotch whisky. Originally on the market many decades ago, it was revived by Cadenhead a couple of years ago. The retro bottle with the gold foil ...
Nose: ripe orchard fruits. Apricot nectar, dried pear slices, marmalade and stewed yellow apples. Apple peelings and subtle honeydew melon. Then hints of Japanese fluffy pancakes (my daughters will be ...
Watashi Whisky is a Taiwanese bottler with interesting series like Things We Dared Not Do or Seven Catly Sins. Ha! I also noticed one bottling of Glenturret matured in a sherry cask from Fernando de ...