Nose: ripe plums and damsons with chocolate brownie, hazelnuts and sweet praline. Also wood spice like clove and cardamom. Maybe not a sherry bomb, but definitely sherried. Then sultanas and wine ...

Review of the Spring selection in The Seasons series from The Whisky Exchange: Linkwood 2013, Glentauchers 2013 and Caol Ila 2014 single malt whiskies.

Review of Sipper's Rum, a blended rum by The Whisky Jury. It includes rums of up to 20 years from Jamaica, Latin America and ...

Nose: classic chalk, raw wool and sunflower oil. Hints of sweet mustard and lemon juice, maybe even a hint of unripe tropical fruit and custard cream, breaking the austere theme. Then also a fresh ...

Review of the Redbreast 18 Year Old, a single malt Irish whiskey from Midleton distillery. It was matured in bourbon, Oloroso ...

Nose: a mild farmy touch up front (dirty sheep wool, hay and rubber boots) along with almonds and honey. Then tobacco leaves, leather, walnuts and stewed apples. Whiffs of diesel. Oranges come forward ...

Millburn remains one of the rarest names in my tasting diary. This is only the second review, after a 1976 Gordon & MacPhail bottling that I had at the Hilton in Valencia one day. Millburn distillery ...

Here’s one of the brand-new Decadent Drinks releases: Laphroaig 1998. It is a marriage of two refill barrels, that have been combined in a 3rd fill European oak sherry hogshead for over two years and ...

In the fall of 2024 Compass Box underwent some big changes. Not only did founder John Glaser sell his share, some of the long-time hits like Hedonism and Spice Tree were discontinued due to stock ...