Updated October 15, 2015 By Father John Rayls Average Rating: B+ I always feel a little awkward trying to write anything about Scotch. As an avowed Bourbon and Rye drinker, I feel I have really only dabbled with Japanese, Irish and Scotch whiskies. However, a very good friend of mine claimed Laphroaig as his absolute favorite Scotch, and strongly recommended ...

By Richard Thomas In the business of pairing Scotch whisky and food, match-ups with seafood has been particularly in vogue lately. The combination is natural enough, when one considers that Scotland has a seafood culture to call its own and that some of the island-based whiskies have a distinctive sea spray quality to them. I happen to live not in ...

By Kurt Maitland Rating: B Glenkinchie another member of Diageo’s Classic Malts series, last covered on this website with the better known Lagavulin 16 Year Old. With the closure/mothballing of Rosebank in 1993, it became one of the few surviving Lowland distilleries in Scotland, and can be found in the farmland 15 miles outside of Edinburgh, near the village of ...

Independent bottler Wemyss Malts is launching a new limited edition to complement its award-winning blended malts range. The new ‘Kiln Embers’ is a smoky addition to the Wemyss line up, blended with double the amount of smoky Islay malt whisky than its sister whisky, Peat Chimney. Following its popular 2014 limited release, Velvet Fig, Wemyss Malts has created this no-age ...

By Richard Thomas Royal Salute, the super premium sub-brand of Chivas Regal, has released a new expression dubbed The Eternal Reserve. This new blended whisky draws on specially selected casks, chosen for their particularly lengthy finishes. The whisky is then brought together using an elaboration on the solera technique that Chivas calls “Circular Blending.” The whisky is transfered from the ...