Port Askaig 8 Year Old
Aroma: This whisky has a marshmallow sweetness, which is counterpointed with a chimney smoke. Imagine eating Tunnocks Tea Cake whilst emptying day old ashes from a log burner. Call it salty or seaweedy, but there […]
Smoke
Paul John – Bold
I’ve become accustomed to lovely whisky from Paul John, so it was no surprise to me that this was a strong offering. The two surprising elements to this dram were the […]
Springbank – Local Barley 16YO
While writing one of last week’s reviews, we realised just how lucky we are with the shops that are local to us in our home town of Bristol. Last week […]
Grants – Ailsa Bay
When you start drinking whisky, you are desperate to try new drams and to find ones that are both of good value and ones that you can get from the […]
Talisker Storm
Continuing on the theme of supermarket whiskies, tonight I’m drinking a Talisker Storm. This has long intrigued me as I’ve continually seen it in supermarkets for at least £10 below […]
Laphraoig – Quarter Cask
Some things just don’t work. Take sofa beds for example. Nobody has ever had a great nights sleep on the tiny, foldable mattress that a sofa bed provides (or certainly […]
Kilchoman – 100% Islay
We might have said this before, but whisky is one of those amazing things in life that can be both hated and loved by different people all at the same […]
Bruichladdich – Port Charlotte
I love a peated Islay whisky, they are the drams that drew me into this obsession in the first place and they are the ones that continue to fuel the […]
English Whisky Company – Chapter 11
This was the second dram that I sampled on the evening with my “Whisky Godfathers”. I picked it up from Corks of Cotham earlier in the week and kept the […]
Ardbeg – Ten Year Old
When you start drinking whisky, there are some bottles that almost cry out to be drunk. They are the recommendations that you always hear from people, they come up in […]