Category Archives: – News and Announcements

This Highland Park sample was sent to me by the chaps at the Master of Malt to get some publicity for their own  bottlings. A very good way of doing that, and I really love the idea that I got … Continue reading →

This Glenfarclas was released to celebrate the 175th anniversary of the distillery a while ago in the Netherlands. It sold out pretty quickly here, but when it was released in other countries more recently it didn’t cause the same hype. … Continue reading →

This bottle was quite the hassle to get home. Together with Marco I bought a bottle and to get my share I sent him an empty 35cl bottle, which he would fill and send back. However, the parcel service thought … Continue reading →

Recently in a nice package from Ewald (of the Usquebaugh Society) I got a sample of Willett Singel Barrel Rye 25 year old, from 1983. There were very nice samples in that package, also the other two George T. Staggs … Continue reading →

I traded a sample of this GlenDronach 16 with Marlie, of whisky club The Whisky Club (what’s in a name) in the south of the country. I’ve had it sitting around for a while and thought it time to taste … Continue reading →

This single cask Lagavulin from 1993 is part of the Manager’s Choice series, which was released during 2009 and 2010. The entire series consisted of a single cask bottling of each of Diageo’s (malt) distilleries in Scotland. 27 single casks … Continue reading →

This is not a post I should have done before, when blogging about the Buffalo Trace Antique Collection Bottle-Share. This is ‘just’ a tasting note for the standard Buffalo Trace bourbon. Nose: Quite a nice bourbony smell comes off this … Continue reading →

Our local liquor shop, Drinks & Gifts, organized a Rum tasting yesterday with 7 rums by Plantation. This is a French company that finds its roots in cognac, but bottles high quality rums as well. The presentation was given by … Continue reading →

Finally, after long weeks of not getting around to it, I have tasted and reviewed all 5 Buffalo Trace Antiques we samples in the previous Bottle-Share. As I expected by the good reviews they were getting on other websites, the … Continue reading →

The most recent version of the Thomas H. Handy was the one I was able to get for the Bottle-Share, and as I told here yesterday, I owed you a review. I tasted an earlier of this whiskey and was … Continue reading →