Category: Watercolour Whisky

“The BenRiach 16 Year Old is an old cottage in the German wilderness – a page out of a Brothers Grimm fairytale. Predominantly sweet with honey and ripe fruit, there’s a dark undercurrent, rich and...

“It’s bittersweet then that the Littlemill 21 Year Old is like a spending a bright sunny afternoon on a café perch, there’s a florist next door, and probably a harpsichordist, and life is good,...

“Sticking with a theme, the 2nd Spirit of Scotland – Rome Whisky Festival (Benrinnes 14 Year Old) is an old Chinese fishing village, and maybe your lao lao was born there, and she’s wondering...

“The 5th Spirit of Scotland – Rome Whisky Festival (Glen Keith 20 Year Old) has the rustic charm of a little villa in the countryside, and maybe a nonna lives there, and she’s wondering...

“The Arran 14 Year Old is San Francisco in the late 1960s: at its peak it’s vibrant, sweet and herbaceous, but it finishes on a slightly bitter note.” Read my review of the Arran...

“The anCnoc Vintage 2000 is like Cady from Mean Girls. It starts out grounded-yet-optimistic with bright complex flavours, takes a somewhat aggressive walk on the wild side, and comes through the experience a little...

The Ardbeg Blasda is like a farmers’ market in Notting Hill. OK, more specifically, the Ardbeg Blasda is like that farmers’ market scene in Notting Hill where he walks through the markets (and the...

No review here (generally sticking to single malt Scotch whiskies), but a lil’ something I painted up on the side.

It’s a curious thing, sudden popularity. When the fickle, capricious fates grace (curse) something by anointing it as ‘in’, sometimes there’s not even enough time to ask ‘why’ before it’s all over: out the door;...

  This post originally featured at watercolourwhisky.com The Bruichladdich Laddie Classic is like a 1950s first aid kit in a log cabin. With a can of Glen20 accidentally thrown in by the props department....