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The beauty of Independently Bottled whisky often is that it is a fleeting experience. A single cask bottled: gone forever once sold out. Yet, from time to time, there are larger outputs made from larger batches of vatted casks, like the Signatory 100 series – check out my review of…
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For this last (at least for now) of this series looking at alternatives to popular whiskies, I am turning to peat. Today, I will suggest five alternatives to Ledaig 10. This one is a bit of an odd one out. If the previous three posts on alternatives to Glenfiddich 12,…
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I felt I was halfway done when I picked the Nikka Miyagikyo Single Malt to take a first peek into Japanese whisky. That’s because the Miyagikyo is always mentioned together with its peated sibling. A sibling that arguably has a more rooted standing in the history of Japanese whisky. So,…
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With this penultimate instalment of my look at cask finishes in whisky, I am about to review the Glenglassaugh Portsoy. Potentially, this could be an interesting look at a different take to finish. Rather than a single malt where cask finish is the main component of the whisky’s character, like…
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Writing a series of reviews on Cask finished whiskies in 2025, I cannot skip the one distillery that arguably gives us some of the most interesting uses of non-traditional casks. And does so at an incredible value point (at least in the UK). A distillery that just released its first…
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I started this series around cask and batch-strength malts with an underappreciated, juicy, sherry-cask-driven malt blend, Old Perth’s take on cask-strength whisky. It is only fitting for the series to end on something diametrically opposite: a review of the Laphroaig 10-year-old cask strength. A heavily peated and often hyped Islay…
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Today, I am cheating. The whisky I am about to review, the Ardbeg Uigeadail, is not a cask strength whisky, and, as such, it should not appear in this series. At best, it can be classified as a batch strength bottling. But i am crowbaring it in due to sentimentality.
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Most of his series about Cask Strength Scottish whisky core releases has focused on bottles with some peat influence. I started with Glasgow Distillery’s Peated Cask Strength to finally make my way to Islay, starting with this review of the Kilchoman Batch strength. This bottle had made a cheeky appearance…
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This series dedicated to Cask Strength malts takes a turn today. All of the whiskies I reviewed in the series up to now were unpeated. For the next reviews, peat will be in the mix in a major or secondary role. Starting with today’s review of the Glasgow 1770 Peated Cask Strength.
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What to do for the first post of 2025? Starting a new topic would be appropriate, but I needed a bit of a bridge between the past year and the new beginning. So before starting with the next whisky topic I plan to explore, Cask Strength whisky, I will look…
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