Review of the Millstone 2018 Pajarete Cask, a single malt whisky from Zuidam distillery matured in a Paxarete cask from ...

In this article I go over 526 reviews from 2025 and list some of the highlights. What were the whiskies, cognacs, rums and ...

Review of the T.D.L. 2003, a 22 year old rum bottled by 35Whisky (Lucky Choice) for Chinlam in China. A lovely rum from ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Diageo’s 2025 Special Releases have arrived. The aura of this series isn’t what it used to be: prices are really high and at the same time retailers are complaining they are still trying to sell ...

A Night on Earth in Scotland is the first Macallan release in an annual series that started off in 2021. It celebrates Hogmanay, Scotland’s New Year’s Eve. No surprise then that it contains whisky ...

I’ve reviewed four Springbank whiskies from Decadent Drinks in the past couple of years. Always high quality (90+ points) although the price often tempered my enthusiasm a little. After the 1996 ...

Nose: classic iodine, with raw barley and oak char. Seaweed and seashells on a beach. There’s a vague fruitiness in the background, mainly on citrus and apple. Wet wool and hints of almonds as well.

Of all French spirits, Calvados is the one I have least experience with. In short, it is an brandy made from distilled cider (up to 200 varieties of apples and pears are allowed). It can be distilled ...