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The Pearl of Speyside, Polished to a Shine! The Tormore Distillery’s nickname is The Pearl of Speyside, and anyone who has ever driven from Grantown-on-Spey towards Aberlour knows exactly where that name comes from. As you glide through that glorious bend in the A95 and the majestic buildings drift past, you cannot help but gawp…
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Teeling Distillery Exclusive on Virgin Oak cask Having visited Teeling Distillery on my birthday a few years ago will be a core memory for a lifetime. I enjoyed seeing the whole operation, even though it was silent season at that moment. I did bottle my own Distillery Exclusive. Recently, I got my hands on a…
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New core range Tormore offers the fruitbasket If there ever were people who’s opinion and take on Scotch whisky I trust blindly, it must be Sukhinder and Rajbir Singh. When the news came out that they purchased the Tormore Distillery in 2022, it brought excitement in the air. With their Elixir Distillers, they are now…
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Core range changes: Tasting Tomatin Triple Cask Those who follow me longer than today, know that I am a devoted fan of the Tomatin Distillery. Recently, I noticed a change in the wind, when they refreshed their core range. It seems that the lower end of the range gets a bigger size label that covers…
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Tennessee Bourbon versus Tennessee Rye We do not know a lot about Tennessee whiskey, other than it is the home state of Jack Daniel’s, and that should be enough. Still, through some sample shares, two very distinct products from Tennessee landed on my desk. Let us see what we can make of it. Tennessee Bourbon…
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Tobermory: A rocky history but a delicate whisky The Tobermory Distillery on the Isle of Mull was founded in 1798, or so the label states. The history is however rather rocky. You could even say that Tobermory has never been truly out of the woods before 1989, or even 1993, when Burn Steward Distillers bought…
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All aboard the train to Tamdhu Dalbeallie Station! The Dalbeallie release by Tamdhu is meant to honour the quaint little train station next to the distillery, now one of the landmarks on this section of the Speyside Way. I first tasted the Dalbeallie expression in 2019, when only the second release came out for the…
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Talisker 10 years old – The Old Map Label Talisker is an incredible stronghold in the single malt whisky category, but to me it always seems like a whispered secret. With its outspoken volcanic character, you would expect this to be a whisky for the acquired taste, for the trained palate. But the numbers tell…
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Old-bottle Cadenhead’s Tomatin 13 years old Today, we taste a Tomatin bottled by one of the oldest independent bottlers of Scotland. I picked up this bottle during my visit to Campbeltown in January 2026, where we also heard a news fact. The Cadenhead bottlings will soon change appearance, as a result of all the things…
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A romantic Teaninich: peated flavours from the floor Our periodical entries about bottlings in the Rare Malts Selection become increasingly … rare, but we managed to unearth another expression! Today, we sink out teeth into a truly special distillery called Teaninich. Known to connoisseurs mostly, Teaninich is not to be overlooked, as it often offers…