Whisky Reviews and Scotch Tasting Notes

Highland Park Dark Origins review

Highland Park Dark Origins single malt scotch whisky review

Highland Park Dark Origins review

We review Highland Park Dark Origins. See what we thought of this heavily sherried single malt scotch whisky here.

Nikka Whisky from the Barrel review

We review Nikka Whisky from the Barrel, a good value Japanese blended whisky.

Bunnnahabhain 12 year old review

You never forget the the way a bloodied cloth strip twists in the wind. When barbers were also surgeons, they hung their bloodied shirts outside th...

An Ode to Ode to Laphroaig

Let’s exalt Laphroaig! Bottled poetry, the malt of salt. Elvis McGonagall won the Spokefest UK Slam poetry match and wrote a poem for Laphroaig’s...

The Single Cask whisky bar, Singapore

A translation company voted ‘serendipity’ as the third most difficult English word to translate (it wasn’t as hard as ‘gobbledegook,’ but according...

Lagavulin 16 year old review

It’s been years since we waxed philosophical with a cow’s ass. The foul and stale air was a soup of synthetic plastics and hairspray. It was a typi...

Smokehead review

The Vikings used a goose poo lotion. The ancient Greek medic Hippocrates believed the answer was pigeon droppings mixed with horseradish, cumin and...

Monkey Shoulder review

‘Good evening, everyone. Welcome to the Cambridge Union. I know tonight is a debate that many of us have been waiting for. It sees a star studded l...

Old Pulteney 12 year old review

We have to say, that we are biased when it comes to Old Pulteney 12yo. It was our first whisky and if it was your first whisky too, we’re sure it a...

Fujikai 10 year old review

Having lived and travelled around Asia for years, we love our Japanese whisky. Most of the drams flooding Europe’s shores are coming out of Suntory...

aberfeldy 12 year old highland single malt scotch whisky

Aberfeldy 12 year old review

Plastic tables spilled onto the road and the air was peppered with Chinese and Indian words. We’re not exactly sure how we ended up at an Indian re...

Doing the rounds

Britain operates on a round system. There isn’t a Brit alive who hasn’t gotten home after 2.00 in the morning because he couldn’t leave before he g...