Single malt scotch whisky and jazz music are Rick van Diepen's passions.

Rick has been a whisky enthusiast since the 2005, when he did an exchange program in Edinburgh. He joined the University's whisky society and visited distilleries across Scotland. Caol Ila distillery was his favourite. So that's exactly where he started, when he launched his own Independent Bottler label, Single Note, with a single cask Caol Ila release.

Single Note's first single cask release was met with rapturous applause from the whisky-loving audience (you can read Ed's review of Single Note's Caol Ila here), and Rick van Diepen is now working on his next outturn of Single Note whiskies. We know they're bound to be good.