I visited the Whiskyshine festival in Macao, tried some excellent whiskies, met wonderful people and wrote a few words about ...

Review of the Penderyn 2015, a 10 year old single malt Scotch whisky bottled from bourbon cask 276, exclusive to The Whisky ...

Review of the Speyside single malt 18 Years, bottled by Saltire Rare Malts in their Cigar Malt series. It is matured in a PX ...

Review of Blair Athol 1986, a 38 year old single malt whisky bottled by One8Nine in the Eternal Cycle series. Matured in a ...

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 ...

Like last year there are eight Special Releases in the final line-up. It surprises me that there are no vintage statements on the labels this year. Maybe they’re added later, or weren’t really an ...

Six cognacs today, from independent bottlers that are driving the entire revival of cognac among whisky lovers. We have well-known houses like Vallein Tercinier and Prunier, but we start this session ...

Nose: syrupy fruits, like red plums, dried apricots and raisins. Some caramel sweetness underneath, with stewed pears and blood orange. Then a darker side of milk chocolate and cherry jam indeed – a ...

Nose: toffee apples and hints of banana, mixed with toasty and fragrant (newish) oak. Whiffs of bubblegum and vanilla marshmallows. Honey. A little pipe tobacco and grassy notes as well. Crystallised ...

Whisky Live Germany is taking place in Hamburg this weekend, more info here. For this occasion Kirsch Import is releasing a new Awakening series. It spans different brands that Kirsch is representing, ...