Rare Ayrshire 1974 37 YO Cask #2604, 52,1 % This certainly is a rare release. ‘Ayrshire’ is the alternative name often given to whisky from the closed Lowland distillery Ladyburn. Ladyburn was established in 1966, built on the same site as the huge grain distillery Girvan – both owned by W. Grant & Sons. The […]...

Highland Park Ragnvald, NAS, 44,6 % Here is the second in command of the Highland Park The Warrior Series; Highland Park Ragnvald. I have previously reviewed the highest ranking warrior, Thorfinn. Highland Park Ragnvald is made up of whisky where 60-80 % have been matured in European (Spanish) oak, and the rest in American oak. All […]...

Mackmyra Tio, 10 YO, 46,1 % Late Autumn 2013 Mackmyra invited customers to order what would be their, and Sweden’s, first ever 10 year old whisky. Customers wanting this whisky had to order a minimum of 12 bottles each, out of a total outturn of 9000 bottles. In addition the customers had to wait until […]...

Amrut Naarangi, 6 YO, 50 % My husband and I attended Box Whisky Festival 2015 a couple of weeks ago. I discovered a new (to me) whisky from Amrut Distilleries at the Clydesdale stand; Amrut Naarangi. This is quite a unique whisky, just read what Clydesdale says about it: The latest offering from Amrut, the ‘Naarangi’ […]...

Scapa 2000 14 YO Chivas Brothers CS Edition, 53,9 % The Chivas Brothers is the company that owns Scapa Distillery, and a few other distilleries. They have a special bottling series called Chivas Brothers Cask Strength (CS) Edition. The expressions in this series are only available to buy if you visit one of these distilleries, although […]...

Box Whisky is a distillery located smack in the middle of Sweden, although it feels like it is very far up north. It is about 5 hours drive north of Stockholm. The nearest town of any significant size, Sundsvall, is 90 minutes south of the distillery. We do have a couple of Swedish friends that […]...

Highland Park 12 YO, 40 % I wrote about Highland Park 10 YO last Wednesday. As I told you I visited Orkney and Highland Park Distillery for the very first time. A couple of weeks ago I tasted both the 10 YO and the 12 YO. To our big surprise we found that we have not […]...

Gerston Classic Selection, NAS, 43 % Gerston is one of the lost distilleries given a new lease on life by The Lost Distillery Company. We have previously reviewed the older Deluxe expression of Gerston. The Gerston Classic Selection is a new entry level expression. This is a blended malt, created to present what the company […]...

On Friday juli 3 we will see a total of 32 whiskies released in the Vinmonopolet monopoly stores. In the list below we have linked to our reviews for the ones we have already tested. Very interesting this month are the Akashi from Japan, Armorik Maitre de Chai from France, Nikka Coffey Grain from Japan, and […]...

The young Norwegian whisky distillery on the tiny island of Myken is now (almost) ready to launch their first product. It will not be a whisky, naturally, as they have only been in production for less than a year. Their first product will be the Myken Arctic Dry Gin. Handcrafted at Myken Distillery, made from […]...

Highland Park 10 YO, 40 % A few weeks back I visited Orkney for the very first time. I doubt it will be my last time. My husband and I visited both Highland Park Distillery and Scapa distillery. I tasted the Highland Park 10 YO on Orkney and I definitely wanted to buy a bottle […]...

We are hearing sad news from France today. The craft distillery Glann Ar Mor in Brittany (Bretagne/Breton) are closing down on augusti 15, 2015. The distillery, which was started back in maj 1997 by Martine and Jean Donnay, produce the unpeated Glann Ar Mor and the peated Kornog (see reviews here). The quality of their products is […]...

Scapa Distillery is known as ‘the other distillery’ on Orkney. Their neighbor Highland Park Distillery is definitely more of a household name in the whisky world. The reason for this is partly that Scapa is a much smaller distillery, and they released their first single malt (14 YO) in 2004. Scapa has always been closed […]...

Mackmyra Sommartid, NAS, 46,1 % On maj 8, 2015, the Mackmyra Sommartid (Summertime) was released. This is the fourth release in the Seasons series from Mackmyra. Previous installments in the series are Midvinter (Midwinter), Midnattssol (Midnight Sun) and Iskristall (Ice Crystal). These releases from Mackmyra often have a special finish, or include some unusual casks […]...

Scapa 16 YO, 40 % Scapa Distillery is ‘the other’ whisky distillery on Orkney, or ‘the’ Orcadian distillery as they call themselves. We recently visited the distillery during our stay in Kirkwall on Orkney Mainland. A full review of the visit is coming up shortly. Today I am reviewing the one and only single malt […]...

Compass Box Great King Street Artist’s Blend, NAS, 43 % Compass Box blends whiskies. I have shared my tasting notes on their Hedonism Blended Grain earlier. Great King Street Our whisky line is named after a street in the New Town of Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland. Great King Street has been home to the registered office […]...

Highland Park Thorfinn, NAS, 45,1 % Back in the spring of 2013 Highland Park Distillery launched The Warrior Series. The three first whiskies in the series came on sale at that time; Einar (Travel Retail), Svein and Harald. In the Autumn of 2013 they then released the last three warriors; Sigurd, Ragnvald and Thorfinn. These whiskies are all […]...

Bunnahabhain 1991 “Thread of Smoke”, 23 YO, 46 % This peated Bunnahabhain from 1991 was released by independent bottler Wemyss Malts in september 2014. Bunnahabhain is mostly known for their fine unpeated Islay whiskies, but they are making themselves more and more known for peated whiskies as well now; see Toiteach and Ceóbanach. They also […]...

Balvenie 14 YO Caribbean Cask, 43 % Balvenie Distillery has released a new batch of the 14 YO Caribbean Cask. The name indicates what kind of casks the whisky has finished its maturation in. Exactly: Rum Casks. This is what the distillery says about the making of this whisky: Caribbean Cask has been matured in […]...

A few days ago we finally got to visit Highland Park Distillery on Orkney. To be more specific, Highland Park is located in the town of Kirkwall on the island Mainland, which is part of the Orkney Islands – the northern most part of Scotland. Getting to Orkney is not very easy. You either fly […]...