Category: Watercolour Whisky

This post originally featured at watercolourwhisky.com When the Glenmorangie 10 Years Old, a frumpy, unfashionable, bespectacled Highland ingénue, ditched the glasses, combed outthe hair, and slipped into some slinky new packaging, a sparkling transformation...

This post originally featured at watercolourwhisky.com The Balvenie Triple Cask 12 Year Old (Travel Retail exclusive) is like Christmas in Australia. All the signs and symbols are there, it ‘seems’ Christmassy, but you can’t...

This post originally featured at watercolourwhisky.com As I come to write my first less-than-glowing review, it’s worth repeating something we’re all supposed to know: whisky tasting is a personal experience. One man or woman’s...

This post originally featured at watercolourwhisky.com I suspect this is largely informed by my current progression through the Wheel of Time series*, but the Longrow Peated (NAS) reminds me of a youthful farmboy who...

This post originally featured at watercolourwhisky.com Sometimes it’s hard to know how much packaging influences the experience of drinking whisky. Remove a blue-capped bottle from a navy box adorned with nautical design elements*, talk...

This post originally featured at watercolourwhisky.com The Glenkinchie 12 Year Old is not so much about the ‘birds and the bees’ as it is the ‘bears and the bees’. It’s got an A. A....

This review originally posted at watercolourwhisky.tumblr.com The Oban 14 Year Old is widely regarded for its strong citrus flavours, and, well… fair play. The flavour profile is like taking an anachronistic sea voyage, in...

This post originally featured at watercolourwhisky.com The Glenlivet 12 Year Old is the workhorse of the whisky world. Ubiquitous and reliable, it may not be the most glamorous or impressive dram available today, but all whisky...