Glen Scotia 8

Thanks to /u/smoked_herring [+2] for the dram. As a Millennial, I personally drink all of my whisky from glencairns made from the bones of industries I personally have seen befallen before me. However with great power comes the writer’s need to balance things with downsides, and as a Millennial I am stuck having rose coloured glasses for both […]

Glen Scotia (2021 Campbeltown Festival / Single Cask)

Is there an updated, not old version of Jan from the Brady Bunch? I don’t know of one, so I’m going to go with it. Glen Scotia is the Jan of Campbeltown. No, I don’t know if anyone who owns it or works there says “Springbank! Springbank! Springbank!” in a whiney pre-teen way, and I […]

Springbank 20 1996 Hunter Laing Old & Rare Platinum Selection

Thanks to /u/ScotchGuy_TO for the sample! Current Springbank brings all the boys and girls and everyone in between to the yard. Much like the world’s richest people have asked throughout time: If I can buy anything with limitless money, what if I had double limitless money? Joking aside (seriously eat the fucking rich), what does one expect […]

Springbank 8 2012 Springbank Society

Thanks to /u/ScotchGuy_TO for pouring me a dram. Still at the whisky tasting. We’re onto the peated section. Which means I took a break, had an espresso, some water, took another break, and then dove back in. We’re on whisky number 9, and the breaks are the only reason I can still keep writing notes, though a […]

Kilkerrans

Watching a distillery grow is an interesting process. Hear me out here: The distillery has an idea of what it wants to make, and how it’s going to raise the money to do so. With how much money that investors are now asking for (because their kids ain’t gonna get a yacht otherwise) you have […]

Springbank 12 1996 Manzanilla

Thanks to xile_ for the sample. Springbank. If Macallan is what the average person buys as prestigious then Springbank is the whisky nerd version. The price is high, it’s only getting higher, and the quality is there. I walk in and someone has more than one Springbank, then they’ll be like “Why are you in my house” […]

Longrow Red 13 Cabernet Sauvignon

Thanks to devoz for this sample. So if you’re new to this, let me let you in on a yearly tradition: We all grease ourselves up, and then jump… Wait, I’m being called by my lawyer and they say I should skip that particular tradition in the public discourse. So otherwise you may have seen Longrow Red […]

Hazelburn 14 Rum Single Cask

Thanks to /u/ScotchGuy_TO for pouring me a dram. Rum Casks. Or as I call them, a trap. Look, you can argue however you like: Rum casks are variable, I’ve had few of them where the rum matured or rum finished just… completely shat the bed. To use the technical term. Enter Hazelburn 14 Rum Single Cask. Yes, that’s […]

Glen Scotia 21 / Glen Scotia Rum Cask Finish Campbeltown Festival 2019

Campbeltown whiskies are still kinda a mystery. I mean, I’ve reviewed a bunch. Some would even say quite a bit more than a bunch. When I first got into Scotch, I was on a tour and was given one whisky from each region, with the exception of Campbeltown. At the time they either didn’t have […]

Multiple Campbeltown Whiskies

I was interested in Scotch when I first went to Scotland. And kudos to the Scotch Whisky Experience. I went through it, they gave me the basics as a base for me to get wrong and be corrected and grow. For instance, they poured one from almost every Scotch region. Yes, almost. They talked about […]