Wemyss Malts is marking their 15th anniversary with the third release for the Wemyss Malts Cask Club, Black Gold, a single cask single malt from Bowmore distillery. Black Gold is single sherry hogshead cask of 1989 Bowmore that has matured for 30 years and bottled at a cask strength of exactly 50.0%ABV. Bowmore is the oldest distillery on Islay and ...

By Emma Briones Rating: A- Each year, Diageo launches a series of rare whiskies under its “Special Releases” collection. The collection is made up of single malts that are rare and quite special, due to their limited availability, high quality and, some times, strange characteristics. One of the latter is an unpeated version of an Islay classic: Caol Ila Unpeated ...

By Douglas Fraser Rating: B The Glendronach Cask Strength Batch 8 is the second of two sherried limited edition whiskies that embodies the Highland single malt style released late last year, the other being the 1993 Master Vintage. Master Blender Rachel Barrie did an amazing job selecting the perfect combination of the finest Pedro Ximenez and Oloroso Sherry casks from ...

Whisky And Beer Are More Intertwined Than Ever By Richard Thomas Whisky (including Irish Whiskey and American Malt Whiskey) have a lot in common because they share similar roots. In the early stages of production, both a distillery and a brewery produce a malted barley wort. I can’t say a beer wort and a whisky wort are indistinguishable, but I ...

By Emma Briones Rating: A The Benromach Distillery closed its doors in 1983. Luckily for us, thanks to Gordon & MacPhail, it started to produce whisky again in 1998. Since then, its main focus has been to produce whisky as in the style of Speyside as it was in the 1950s, and a good example of that is their Benromach ...