Best wishes for 2018

A quick look at some of the highlights of 2017 before we start a new year of (almost) daily whisky reviews.

Best new whiskies in 2017

We saw basically the same trends already mentioned in 2016: the excellent parcel of undi sclosed Speyside 1970s whisky hasn’t dried up yet. On the other hand old Irish whiskey keeps amazing us.

For the undisclosed Speyside whisky, it seems this year it was mostly the 1973 vintage scooping the awards. My personal favourites:

• Speyside Region 44 yo 1973 (48,8%, Maltbarn for Shinanoya 2017, sherry cask,...