WhiskyNotes

From our friends in Hasselt comes this new Delamain cognac called 'Les Tarins Verts'.

The Whisky Dreamers keep a steady pace.

The Limburg festival is coming up.

RumX recently released a bottling of Savanna rum.

Here's our timely review of some of Decadent Drinks' releases.

In August 2025 Tamdhu released its oldest whisky, the Tamdhu 21 Year Old.

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The latest armagnacs from Hontambère / Rac Spirits arrived.

While officially undisclosed, this Old School Single Malt is probably from Bunnahabhain.

Scottish oak is very porous and notoriously hard to work with, which is one of the reasons why distillers often rely on American or European oak.

Port Askaig is the well-known brand of Islay whiskies from Elixir Distillers.

The Antelope (Macao) and Kanpaikai (Japan) are good friends.

The latest Perthshire farm-to-bottle distillery is Aberargie.

At Wine Paris 2026 (mid February), François Voyer presented three new releases from their Grande Champagne 1er Cru terroir.

Hedonism is one of the long-standing names in the Compass Box portfolio.

Three very old Cuban rums, a 1964 and 1967 (both bottled by The Whisky Agency) and the other from 1973.La Morita Caribeña is a brand registered by Distilerias Acha in the North of Spain.

In the summer of 2024 Chivas Brothers had a collab with The Whisky Exchange, called Lost In Time.

In the spotlight today: two of the older Springbank expressions..

You may have noticed that TWJ started bottling some of its Many Faces of Rum releases in standard bottles, rather than the dumpy style that used to be linked to Karuizawa Noh bottlings.

After the inaugural bottlings, here's a new batch of bottlings from the Taiwanese bottler Scout Drinks already.

Malternative Belgium is dropping two new cognacs today: an undisclosed Lot 19.70 Petite Champagne and a new Marie Foucher Lot 19.79 Fins Bois.In fact there's also a new armagnac but we'll try that one in a different session.

Most releases from Mars stays in Asia, but now The Whisky Exchange is offering an exclusive single cask.

Normally we try to catch up with Decadent Drinks' Equinox & Solstice series once a year or so, but now it's been a while since we had one.

Kiyokawa is a new name - the first farm-to-bottle distillery in Japan.

Precious Liquors has a new series which honours the bear Wojtek.

At the beginning of March The Whisky Exchange released two new exclusives.

I don't think we've ever laid our hand on Power's Irish whiskey.

We have three releases from the Single Malts of Scotland range in our glass.

Some time ago Kirsch Import presented a Mission Gold bottling exclusive to Germany.

Grape of the Art had a little break but they're back.

The Rum Trail is a selection of rums from around the world, brought together by Elixir Distillers.

Black Art is the 'enigma' release from Bruichladdich distillery.

Here's an assorted set of Decadent Drinks releases.

We're moving Down Under today.

One of the new exclusive bottlings from The Whisky Exchange is this 10 year old Glen Scotia finished in Tawny Port casks.

Watashi Whisky is a Taiwanese bottler with interesting series like Things We Dared Not Do or Seven Catly Sins.

We've had the Indri single malt from India before, with pretty good results.

After their series The Sins, Distilia is going forward with the next series The Virtues, curated by Rob Bauer.

Two new installments have been added to The Whisky Jury's The Ester Hunter series recently.

No shortage of Bowmore these days, and no shortage of good Bowmore either.

Two weeks ago Malternative Belgium presented two new cognacs (and one Pineau des Charentes).One of them is a Delamain Très Vieux Réserve Grande Champagne as part of their Founder's Reserve series which already included a very similar demi-john (see our Ga…

The Whisky Jury is dropping a couple of new whiskies and rums tomorrow, including a new Ben Nevis 1996.

With its latest series The Zodiac, The Whisky Exchange is reaching for the stars.

CRN57° is a new range of blended malt Scotch whiskies.

Dropping today: two Island whiskies from Decadent Drinks.

There's not a lot of Cragganmore on the market, especially if you look at independent bottlers.

If you're somewhat interested in Belgian contemporary art then the name Fred Bervoets is obligatory knowledge.

Isle of Raasay distillery uses a Six Cask Programme: unpeated and peated spirit, matured in Chinkapin, Bordeaux and rye casks.

Scapa remains one of the active distilleries with the lowest review count in my book.

In November 2025 the Wu Dram Clan released a series of interesting whiskies.