Category Archives: – News and Announcements

I’ve come to discover more and more good beers recently. Browsing through Untappd also helps, but most of the craft beers I find at Drinks & Gifts. I especially like the huge selection of De Molen Brewery’s beers available. Recently … Continue reading →

To get the list of ‘distilleries I want to taste a whisky from’ completely checked off by the end of the year, I had to taste a Dallas Dhu. A while ago Jolanda from Drinks & Gifts had a sample … Continue reading →

This Glenfarclas 8 year old is a regular bottling by Glenfarclas, done in 2007. It doesn’t use their standard dumpy shaped bottles, but a long regular bottle instead. Also, the label is slightly different with vertical lines in the back … Continue reading →

Since the revamp of the Fettercairn brand, I’d still not tasted any of the dandy looking new bottles. I recently changed that by buying a sample of the Fettercairn Fior. The other new releases with similar bottles are a 24 … Continue reading →

Another one of the Bruichladdich brands. I am wondering when the first SMWS Octomore’s will be released! Port Charlotte is a whisky brand by Bruichladdich based on classic Islay style and the fact that there once was a Port Charlotte … Continue reading →

This SMWS bottling is a 20 year old Mortlach from 1989, matured in a First Fill Sherry Butt. Mortlach usually works rather well with Sherry casks, so I expected quite something from this little sample I got. This one is … Continue reading →

Another dram I had at my dad-in-law’s place. Another one I wasn’t too impressed with ages ago, but I just had to try it again, before it was all gone. This Cragganmore is part of Murray McDavid’s Range, from the … Continue reading →

Alc-Hem-Ist, or Alchemist, is a bottler with probably the most hideous bottles available. Its a rather small company that doesn’t limit itself to bottling whisky, but I’ve seen some Calvados and Cognac from the same label as well. My father … Continue reading →

It had been a while since I hosted a tasting for people I didn’t know. Before this blog there was a different site at http://www.maltfascination.nl through which a friend and I hosted whisky tastings. We hadn’t received any requests for … Continue reading →

Yesterday a big but almost weightless box arrived in the mail. I couldn’t remember ordering any bottles, but I have been known to overlook things. Those usually make for nice surprises… These were a couple of samples from the Whisky … Continue reading →