My first and only visit to Bruges in Belgium happened over ten years ago and lasted just a few days. Nevertheless, the city’s claimed its place in my heart forever! So when I learned much later that Bruges had its own whisky distillery – a father and son operation (more…)
Later this month, I will drive up north for a guided tour of Stauning Distillery in Denmark. This will be my second visit to the place, however, I am sure that this time will be completely different from the previous one. Cause when I first dropped by there almost six years ago, Stauning was still (more…)
The name “Cask Experiment Series” says it all: Within this special line of whiskies, acclaimed Danish production site Mosgaard Distillery releases bottlings with out-of-the-ordinary wood formulas and one-of-a-kind maturation histories. (more…)
When Loch Lomond Distillery’s local importer Wein Wolf released this single cask bottling on the German market in late 2021, I learned two things from it: First, I discovered that Pineau des Charentes casks can be really well-suited for whisky maturation. (more…)
For quite some time I turned a blind eye on the malts produced by Bunnahabhain Distillery for no specific reason. But then I read a review of a Bunnahabhain malt and from that moment on I knew I had to try it. Luckily, just a few days later I went to a whisky fair, (more…)
In the Western world, the fine malts of Japanese whisky wizards Suntory gained an enormous push in popularity in late 2014, when Jim Murray proclaimed the Yamazaki Sherry Cask 2013 his World Whisky of the Year. (more…)
Drink-wise, the Emerald Isle is particularly famous for its triple-distilled whiskey and rich-flavored stout beer. Since either of them tastes helluva good on its own, a marriage of both must be off the charts! (more…)
With demand for Asian whiskies at an all-time high, malts from the Far East are no longer insiders’ tips. Besides the “big two” from Japan, Nikka and Suntory, there is another company that is on everybody’s lips, namely Kavalan from Taiwan. (more…)
Although I was born and raised in the very North of Germany, I have never been to Helgoland – Germany’s only island in the open sea – before last year. Yet, the long weekend I spent there in June of 2015 instantly turned the remote isle into one of my favorite places in the world. (more…)
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