May 6, 2017
Napue Gin by Kyrö Distillery

Napue Gin Tonic review – Best gin for Gin and Tonic

Napue Gin and Tonic by Kyrö Distillery Company (KDC) was the inaugural winner of the International Wine & Spirits Competition Gin & Tonic Trophy in 2015. So, it’s been awarded the best gin for gin and tonic, which instantly made the adventurous Rye Rye Gentlemen famous in the world of […]
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May 4, 2017
Writers Tears Irish Whiskey review

Writer’s Tears Pot Still whiskey review

Writer’s Tears is owned and bottled by Walsh Whiskey Company, who also own the Irishman brand. Writers Tear’s is a blend of 40% Irish Pure Pot Still (also known as Single Pot Still) and 60% Single Malt Whiskey, triple distilled like Irish whiskeys usually are. Blended whiskey without grain whiskey […]
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April 23, 2017
Best Scotch glasses

Best Scotch glasses for tasting

Looking for best glasses for drinking Scotch? I decided to make an article about the best Scotch drinking glasses. Whether it’s a custom or personalized Scotch glass, or just plain and simple crystal Scotch glasses, which happen to be the best of their kind, you can find them in this article. Nosing […]
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April 22, 2017
Highland Park 10YO review

Highland Park 10 year old review

Highland Park 10 year old comes from the most northerly whisky distillery in Scotland, the Highland Park distillery in Kirkwall, Orkney Island. This distillery has found its way to my heart, being one of my favorite distilleries. Never disappointing, always delivering top quality whiskies like their core range 12 and […]
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April 8, 2017
Glen Moray Chardonnay Cask Finish review

Glen Moray Chardonnay Cask Finish review

Glen Moray Chardonnay Cask Finish comes from Glen Moray distillery, located in West End of Elgin which makes it the most northerly Speyside distillery. Nowadays owned by La Martiniquaise, the distillery was founded in 1897 and it’s in the capitol of Moray. The distillery has been shortlisted in top 10 […]
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March 27, 2017
Best Whiskey Carafe you can find - check out whiskey carafe sets from here

What to look for when buying a whiskey carafe set

When buying a whiskey carafe set, you’re probably asking many questions from yourself? Is it worth it to buy a whiskey carafe to store your dram? Is decanting whiskey even necessary? There’s lots of debate about decanting whiskey, so I decided to answer to some of those questions. In a […]
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March 25, 2017
Cream Liquor and Irish Whiskey Chocolate

Böhme Finest Cream & Irish Whiskey

I have to make a quick post about this Irish whiskey cream liquor filled chocolate. Made by Böhme, these are delicious. The powerful Irish cream and whiskey flavor is delicious. The chocolate isn’t bad either, complimenting the filling. If you are a whisky or liquor cream fan and bump into […]
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March 25, 2017
Nosing Copita glasses for whisky by Ardbeg

Copita whisky glass

Copita glass – true connoisseur way of enjoying a dram First of all, let’s make it clear because I’ve seen Google suggest giving “capita nosing glass” as a search term. Capita is not correct, it’s Copita nosing glass for whisky. Nosing Copita glass is a stylish and practical version of whisky nosing […]
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March 4, 2017
GlenDronach Peated Single Malt review

GlenDronach Peated review

GlenDronach Peated feels quite exotic, since GlenDronach distillery is famous for making sweet sherry matured whiskies. In fact, GlenDronach Peated was their first ever peated expression introduced in 2015. I have to admit, I do get excited every time I bump into a peated whisky outside Islay. Even though Islay […]
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February 18, 2017
Port Charlotte Scottish Barley

Port Charlotte Scottish Barley – heavily peated whisky review

Port Charlotte Scottish Barley is a heavily peated whisky from Bruichladdich distillery who usually are known for unpeated whiskies. If you don’t count Bruichladdich’s über peated range called Octomore. Actually their Port Charlotte range is nowadays so wide, that you can forget the statement “Islay’s non-peated distillery”, which was widely […]
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January 7, 2017
Edradour 10YO review

Edradour 10 year old single malt review

Edradour 10 year old comes from Highland, from the “smallest traditional distillery” in Scotland as they claim theirselves. The word traditional has been added since there are new distilleries founded in 2010’s, which are smaller than Edradour. Edradour’s full capacity per year is 130 000 liters but they produce approximately […]
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January 4, 2017
DYC 10 year old single malt whisky

DYC 10 year old single malt whisky review

Distilerias y Crianza del Whisky (DYC) from Spain is one of the largest distilleries in the world, currently a subsidiary of Beam Suntory. DYC was founded in 1958 by Nicomedes Garcia Gomez. Gomez started working on his father’s small liquour distillery at Valverde del Majano in Segovia. 50 years later […]
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December 28, 2016
Compass Box Flaming Heart

Compass Box Flaming Heart 15th Anniversary Whisky review

Celebrating Compass Box’s fifteenth anniversary, the 2015 edition of Flaming Heart is another fine example of top notch blending by John Glaser and his company. Glaser has been named “Innovator of the Year” four times by Whisky Magazine and “Pioneer of the Year” twice by Malt Advocate. He has stated […]
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December 13, 2016
Clynelish 14YO review

Clynelish 14 year old review

Located in Highland region, Clynelish 14 year old single malt whisky comes from a distillery built opposite the nowadays silent Brora distillery. The original, Old Clynelish distillery was built in 1819 but in 1969, changed its name to Brora. Brora made heavily peated whisky in 1969-1973 for blending, covering a shortage of […]
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December 12, 2016
Nikka Taketsuru Pure Malt

Nikka Taketsuru Pure Malt review

Nikka Taketsuru Pure Malt is a non-age-statement blended malt expression from The Nikka Whisky Distilling Co. Japanese call blended a.k.a vatted malts as pure malts. So named after the company’s founder Masataka Taketsuru, this blended malt is called Nikka Taketsuru Pure Malt. It has plenty of malt whisky from the […]
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November 26, 2016
Lagavulin 8YO single malt whisky

Lagavulin 8 year old single malt review

WhiskyRant’s conclusions Tasting notes Lagavulin 16 year old single malt is my all-time favorite, so needless to say, I’m a big fan of Lagavulin distillery. Lagavulin is not known for wide range of whiskies: they have their flagship whisky, the 16YO, and a cask strength 12YO – both absolute beauties. […]
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October 22, 2016
Compass Box Hedonism

Compass Box Hedonism Blended Grain review

Compass Box Hedonism was first released in the year 2000, and it was the first of its kind – a blended grain whisky. Another innovation by the tireless innovators from Compass Box. This small independent bottler has really been a pioneering facet in whisky industry, they’ve even managed to upset […]
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October 22, 2016

Edradour Hand Made Whisky Fudge review

Had a chance to taste some handmade whisky fudge by Gardiners of Scotland, a company famous for Scottish fudge and traditional confectionery. They’ve manufactured delicious fudge laced with Edradour Highland single malt whisky and presented in a protective oval gift tin. Package size is300g/10.5oz. I’ve tasted whisky chocolate and whisky […]
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October 22, 2016
Hankey Bannister Heritage Blend Scotch Whisky Review

Hankey Bannister Heritage Blended Scotch review

Hankey Bannister is a famous Blended Scotch Whisky brand by Inver House Distillers (owned by International Beverage Holdings Ltd.). The brand was established in London’s West End in 1757 – Beaumont Hankey and Hugh Bannister founded the company seeking to enter the wines and spirits business, and the hearts of […]
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October 2, 2016
Compass Box Enlightenment

Compass Box Enlightenment review

Compass Box Enlightenment was made in the spirit of Compass Box’s Campaign for Scotch Whisky Transparency. You can read the backstory of this campaign from my Spice Tree review – long story short, production of Spice Tree had to be stopped because of Scotch Whisky Association’s ridiculous regulations (Fortunately they […]
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October 1, 2016
Compass Box Spice Tree

Compass Box Spice Tree review

Compass Box Spice Tree gained much reputation because of Scotch Whisky Association and its regulations. Making Compass Box Spice Tree “illegal whisky”. I’ll get to that later on but first: some basic information about this vatting of Northern Highland malt whiskies. Clynelish malt is the core of this blended malt […]
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September 10, 2016
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Rittenhouse Straight Rye 80 proof review

Nothing states tradition more in rye whiskey making, like mentioning the classic Pennsylvania or Monongahela style rye whiskeys in the label. That’s what Rittenhouse Rye is all about – coming from Continental Distilling Corporation in Pennsylvania, USA. Owned by Heaven Hill Distilleries, Rittenhouse is a serious contender in the world of […]
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September 8, 2016
Helsinki Distilling Company logo

Helsinki Distilling Company – distilling whisky in the capital of Finland

Helsinki Distilling Company (HDC) opened its doors in August 2014 in The Abattoir (Teurastamo), a former slaughterhouse from 1930’s to 1990’s, which is one of the cultural hearts of food in Helsinki. The building where Helsinki Distilling Company is located, has been used as a power plant for 30 years, […]
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August 27, 2016
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Beer Hunter’s – first Finnish Single Malt maker

Panimoravintola Beer Hunter’s is a brewery restaurant located in Pori, which is a city in the west coast of Finland. Beer Hunter’s is also officially the first Finnish Single Malt producer. They only made whisky to be sold in their restaurant and not for retail markets. So the first commercial […]
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July 24, 2016
Gabriel Boudier Dijon's Saffron Gin

Saffron Gin review & recipes

Saffron Gin comes from a respected French distillery called Gabriel Boudier. Based in Dijon, France, they’ve been around since 1874. Gabriel Boudier distillery is one of the pioneers of French fruit liqueurs, owned by the Boudiers, continuing the family tradition of making great crème de fruits. So even though Saffron […]
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July 20, 2016
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Kyrö distillery – pioneers of Finnish rye whisky

In Rye We Trust Kyro distillery, or Kyrö distillery, as we Finns and Nordic people will say and write it, is probably the most anticipated Finnish whisky distillery. At least in my book. Along with Valamo Monastery’s distillery, they will offer a special kind of whisky for the market. They […]
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July 19, 2016
The Macallan Ice Ball Maker

Ice ball machine for making big spheres – cools fast and dilutes slow

Cirrus and Macallan ice ball machine sets are perfect for sculpting well rounded and large ice spheres for your drink. You have probably read about the Japanese ice ball sculpting skills. I recently made an article about usage of ice with whisky, you can read the backstory about Japanese culture and ice, […]
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