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12/05/2026

Two not-so-secret Speysiders in sherry

11/05/2026

Two wee Glenmorangie

We could have slipped in a Westport, the trade name used for Glenmorangie, but we’ll stick to official bottlings and compare a rather old 25-year-old with the latest Lasanta 15-year-old.

10/05/2026

Back to Gascony today

And we’re going to start straight away with a little aperitif that you can generally find here in supermarkets. It’s inexpensive and, I think, mainly used in cooking, in desserts and so on. But we’re not afraid of anything!...

09/05/2026

Angus enjoyed a very lovely trio of Strathisla

Anyway, Strathisla is a distillery it's hard not to be fond of, is it not? One that has been well served over the decades by G&M, so we've been fortunate enough to taste many examples over the years. We'll have three 'relatively' recent mature examples today. 

08/05/2026

A wee time warp session, triple-distilled

Today we are, so to speak, going to compare two Auchentoshans distilled roughly thirty years apart, beginning with the older one: an official 43% bottling with an excellent reputation, which we have never yet tasted.

07/05/2026

Loved the Glover, done in tribute to the Scottish samurai

Well, here we are again. It’s true that the recent big names are still holding their own, but we are noticing a slight decline among the long-established old malts, just as in Scotland, for that matter. It is, in fact, quite a curious phenomenon, this sort of strategic withdrawal, and the way they...

06/05/2026

We're going on with high-level Japan

After the beautiful Chichibu and Shindo yesterday, we’re continuing our exploration of Japan in its malty, liquid form, also trying to track down more Chichibu, and likely heading over to Mars (but in a different way from that of the ultra-wealthy tech tycoons), and of course Kanosuke as well. But...

05/05/2026

We’re setting off on a (mostly) Japanese whisky series that will last several days

We probably won’t be tasting only genuine Japanese whiskies, meaning whiskies actually distilled in Japan. Matters may seem obvious to 90% of people, and yet… That said, the situation does seem to have become clearer over the past three or four years, though you still come across horrors here an...

04/05/2026

Two Imperial for Asia and two horses. The whiskies are very similar, but the horses are quite different. Right.

Let’s sample two more malts from the Imperial distillery, which was demolished and replaced by Dalmunach, which began production in 2014, at a time when the whisky tide was rising. We’re also starting to see more and more young Dalmunach expressions from independent bottlers, incidentally, but l...

03/05/2026

More malternativey rums and no duds this time. Oh and be careful with photos of old bottles posted online where the liquid levels have been artificially raised using AI.

After that stunning headline, so bold that even David Ogilvy wouldn’t have dared to write it and that is bound to revolutionise the way tasting notes are written (all you adorable newborn recyclers/regurgitators on YouTube or elsewhere, do take note!) let’s get straight to it… For once, in any...

02/05/2026

And so here it is again, that infamous ordeal we inflict on ourselves at the end of every month