There seems to be a wave of old Cuban rums at the moment. I know the sweetness of these casks is sometimes a little ...
Review of the Old-Fashioned Christmas Whisky 2024, bottled by The Whisky Exchange. A richly sherried single malt with a lot of Christmas aromas.
Review of Benromach 2013 bourbon cask 835 and Benromach 2014 sherry cask 486, two single casks exclusive to Kirsch Import in ...
Review of the Karuizawa 50 Year Old - Marriage 1965 & 1972, exclusively available in The Whisky Exchange Cabinet, a ...
Review and tasting notes for the Roseisle 12 Years, a single malt whisky that is part of the 2024 Diageo Special Releases ...
Review of the Amrut Master Distiller's Reserve (2023 edition), a limited Indian single malt whisky matured in a Stout beer ...
Our final review of the 2024 Special Releases is the Mortlach. This is a ‘no age statement’ whisky (like most of the Mortlach expressions in this series). After maturation in classic bourbon casks, ...
Nose: relaxed sherry, not too heavy. There are red apples, hints of cherry syrup and old leather. Then some mocha and cinnamon, along with dried herbs. Some praline. Acacia honey, as well as a light ...
Cream sherry casks are still not very common for whisky maturation (except for the Canasta casks that seem to be used by lots of distillers these days). I find that strange for different reasons.
Belgian importer Young Charly recently secured a single cask from Glasgow distillery. The peated spirit was distilled in 2018. It matured in virgin white oak for around 4 years. Then it entered PX ...