Review of Sipper's Rum, a blended rum by The Whisky Jury. It includes rums of up to 20 years from Jamaica, Latin America and ...

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 ...

Review of the Redbreast 18 Year Old, a single malt Irish whiskey from Midleton distillery. It was matured in bourbon, Oloroso ...

The Spring selection from The Whisky Exchange’s The Seasons series arrived. We already reviewed nine bottlings accross three seasons, which means the series now forms a full circle. This time we’re ...

Nose: classic chalk, raw wool and sunflower oil. Hints of sweet mustard and lemon juice, maybe even a hint of unripe tropical fruit and custard cream, breaking the austere theme. Then also a fresh ...

Nose: a mild farmy touch up front (dirty sheep wool, hay and rubber boots) along with almonds and honey. Then tobacco leaves, leather, walnuts and stewed apples. Whiffs of diesel. Oranges come forward ...

Nose: classic South shore Islay, with hints of bandages, seaweed and iodine, leafy notes and hints of wormwood. A few herbal elements but also a nice sweet fruitiness underneath (peach?). Then a ...

Millburn remains one of the rarest names in my tasting diary. This is only the second review, after a 1976 Gordon & MacPhail bottling that I had at the Hilton in Valencia one day. Millburn distillery ...

Flensburg Rum Company (Oldman Spirits) has a very open look at the rum scene. They have some belters from established rum producers but they also released interesting names that apparently no other ...