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  • Pulteney 10 Years Old PX Sherry octave finish

    Pulteney 10 Years Old PX Sherry octave finish – The Octave Project whisky review: Easily as good as the original Bourbon barrel expression but quite different. This time their is some dark fruits from the sherry cask but also plenty… Continue reading

    Pulteney 10 Years Old PX Sherry octave finish
  • Pulteney 10 Years Old Oloroso Sherry octave finish

    Pulteney 10 Years Old Oloroso Sherry octave finish – The Octave Project whisky review: Spiced and redolent of fruity berries and cream, I’m not sure this is an improvement over the original cask – in fact most of the things… Continue reading

    Pulteney 10 Years Old Oloroso Sherry octave finish
  • Pulteney 9 Years Old Original Bourbon Barrel

    Pulteney 9 Years Old Original Bourbon Barrel – The Octave Project whisky review: A great and classic Pulteney expression, malty, fruity, coastal and vanilla from the bourbon barrel – I kept picking up a hint of wood smoke or toasted… Continue reading

    Pulteney  9 Years Old Original Bourbon Barrel
  • Old Pulteney 2004 Single Cask 128

    Old Pulteney 2004 Single Cask #128 TWE Exclusive whisky review: An intense and heavily sherried Pulteney cask reminds me why I love this combination so much. Deep dark fruit coupled with chocolate from the cask mixes with rich malt, coastal salt… Continue reading

    Old Pulteney 2004 Single Cask 128
  • Old Pulteney 2006 Vintage

    Old Pulteney 2006 Vintage whisky review: Pleasant enough, this has some nice flavours and textures about it but a little too sharp citrus and ‘green’ wood for my liking. 79/100 Continue reading

    Old Pulteney 2006 Vintage
  • Whisky Boom – Bimber Distillery

    Whisky Boom Bimber Distillery The Bimber Story A journey from the forests of Poland where our master distiller learnt the art of distillation from his father, who had learnt from his grandfather; on an open fire with a homemade copper… Continue reading

    Whisky Boom – Bimber Distillery
  • Lower East Side

    Lower East Side blended malt whisky review: A very drinkable blended malt whisky, puts many entry-level ‘vanilla’ single malts to shame. A great balance and depth of marzipan/almonds and smoke pervades the honeyed barley malt and American oak maturation influences. Fresh… Continue reading

    Lower East Side
  • Glendronach Cask Strength Batch 7

    GlenDronach Cask Strength Batch 7 whisky review: Surprisingly light in colour or full in flavour, I can’t really decide which. This is packed with sharp and earthy berry fruits, a real hedgerow of foraged fruit flavours, backed by dark chocolate,… Continue reading

    Glendronach Cask Strength Batch 7
  • Paul John Peated Select Cask

    Paul John Peated Select Cask whisky review: Even more fun at Select Cask strength, this peated edition presents the ideal sweet and peaty mixture again with a chewy cereal backbone to this whisky. 89/100 Continue reading

    Paul John Peated Select Cask
  • Paul John Bold

    Paul John Bold whisky review: On revisiting this I had quite a different experience, the peat influence appears to have grown despite this likely gaining a couple of years maturation since we tasted the inaugural release version back in 2015.… Continue reading