Buds & Barrels, Double-V, Klubb23, Crann, The Green Door
Beeswax, walnuts and shoe polish lead to sultanas, fig jam and heather honey, with peaty and peppery notes emerging on a handsome finish.
A genuine treasure hunt of a whisky, with smouldering earth, tropical fruit, smoked pepper and a long, elegant, increasingly peaty finish.
Smoky and unmistakably salty, with tarry notes alongside ripe apples, quince and toasted sesame; remarkably evocative of a motor race.
Peppery and focused on green walnuts, it develops into marmalade and camphor, ending in a long, saline, smoky, earthy and thoroughly satisfying finish.
Markedly mineral, phenolic, smoky, maritime and salty, this blend delivers astonishing notes of old fino, oysters, damp cement and lemons.
Apple compote, cinnamon, sugar cane, honey and figs lead to a sweet but pleasant palate, with apple juice, white nougat and a malty finish.
Tinned apple compote, vanilla, hay and a distinctly herbal palate make this a challenging neat whisky, though the reviewer concedes it could have been much…
A wonderful bottle, with a long, oily, textured finish that brings together waxy and mineral notes, graphite oil and returning citron.
A magnificent bottle: powerful and remarkably fruity, with syrupy fruit salad, citrus, black pepper, leather, tobacco and elegant waxy notes.
A magnificently simple whisky, balancing quince, ashes, seawater, fresh bread, green pepper and lemon juice with a long, superb, tightly focused finish.
Simple and perfect, with lemon, seawater, peat and green walnut, followed by an expressive earthy, rooty character and a long liquorice-tinged finish.
A superb whisky with a distinctive blade-like character, seawater and menthol, opening into pink grapefruit, guava and honey with water.
A massive, decidedly wintry whisky with pumpernickel, grilled and smoked vegetables, pepper, marmalade and a long finish of gingerbread, citrus, cinnamon and…
Exotic mango, passion fruit and banana mingle with peat, coastal salinity, eucalyptus and mint in this sublime, remarkably poised whisky.
Tremendously powerful and very smoky, with tar, grapefruit, cough syrup and pepper liqueur; an excellent, remarkably peaty Caol Ila.
Maltbarn: Balblair, Teaninich, Dalmunach, Linkwood
Fruity waxy nose. Classic springbank character on the tongue.
Cherry on the nose. Nut and fruit palette.
The Chardonnay cask really comes out both on the nose and the palette.
