By Richard Thomas My personal preferences lead me to trot out the Scotch whisky only once I can exert myself outdoors and not become drenched with sweat. It’s a style of whisky I prefer to avoid putting on ice, and thus better suited to mild and cold weathers in my book. So it was that in late autumn of 2020, ...

By Alex Southgate Rating: B It’s always interesting to try different blends from the same distillery. Something as small as a different choice of cask type made from the same wood stock, such as a rebuilt bourbon barrel against a hogshead made from bourbon barrel staves, can make for an immensely different scotch. Equally, the end product is very much ...

By Richard Thomas Richard Thomas, Owner-Editor I handed out a personal record of six A grades in 2020, but not a single A+, which makes both Best New Whiskey and Best To Pass My Lips hard calls to make. Frankly, my choices are easily interchangeable. Both were wonderful and both were released during 2020. Just a hair behind the two ...

By Alex Southgate Rating: B The Ardmore is a Highland single malt and a distillery, the latter sitting at the highest point of the Northern Railway line. It’s a whisky that has always relied on rail travel to truly enable it to flourish. In fact, the distillery’s proximity to the railway line allowed founder Adam Teacher (son of the founder ...

By Richard Thomas Rating: B Whiskies tying into movies and TV series have been a thing for a the last few years or so, and back during the late stage of Game of Thrones the world’s biggest drinks company, Diageo, decided to join that game. Using their Classic Malts brands as the basis, Diageo introduced a line of malts, one for ...