Today we’re tasting an IB Toshan, bottled by Duncan Taylor in a line called “BattleHill” to commemorate battles fought by the highland clans in the […]
Quick Dram : Auchentoshan ‘BattleHill’ 8 yo
Category: Independent Bottling
Quick Dram : Kintra Whisky Caol Ila 10 yo , 2000 vintage
Kintra whisky is a small IB based in NL, and we’ve had the pleasure of sampling quite a few expressions bottled by it in the […]
Tasting the Master of Malt Speyside 30 year old 3rd edition
After Tasting the 40 and 50 year olds, it’s high time to test the ‘middle aged’ 30 year old. This one again is a Secret […]
Wemyss Round 6 : Ginger Compote Single Cask,Speyside Vintage 1996
So We’ve reached the final tasting note in this series (3 more to come next month), and to conclude it, we’ll be tasting another single […]
More Wemyss : Red Berry Cream Single Cask vintage 1990
After the glorious “Whispering smoke” arrive at out 2nd single cask tasting note, this time a Highland single cask, distilled 1990. I’ve seen some sites […]
Wemyss Malts Take IV : Whispering Smoke 1981, Single Cask (Islay)
Time for the big guns: the Wemyss malts single cask bottlings, selected by Charlie Mclean. I’ve chosen to start with a peated cask, and IMHO […]
Wemyss Malts Take III : Tasting the ‘Spice King’ 8yo
We come to the third and last Wemyss blended malts aged 8 years (the next ones i will be tasting will be single cask malts). […]
Wemyss Malts Take II : Tasting the ‘Smooth Gentleman’ 8 yo
Another Wemyss blended malt, this time we move on from the Islay emphasis of the peat chimney, to this 8 year old with an emphasis […]
Tasting the Wemyss malts ‘Peat Chimney’
As a peat-head, no better start than a peaty blended malt for starting our little Wemyss malts series of tasting notes, right? This is a […]
Tasting Wemyss malts
The Wemyss (pronunced : weems) family have had a longstanding passion for malt whisky and their connections with the industry date back to the turn […]