This was bottled at a volcanic barrel strength of 67.65% ABV (135.3 proof).

There’s no age statement on the bottle, but because the distillery was founded in 2016, we know that this must have a single digit age.

Bimber is a relatively new whisky distillery based in London, England

This 17 year old release from 2023 comes from Caol Ila, a distillery which is only half a mile from the port town of Port Askaig which gives this brand its name.

Finally, we're getting around to tasting and reviewing a Torabhaig whisky for the first time.

An 18 year old Ledaig, 'teaspooned' with 3 year old grain, and sold for half the price of the single malt. How does the value proposition hold up?

Lady of the Glen is a small independent bottler based in Dalgety Bay in Scotland.

This Aultmore spent its full maturation in a plain ex-bourbon hogshead.

Annandale distillery produces two sub-brands: 'Man O' Words,' like this bottling, which uses unpeated distillate, but also the 'Man O' Swords' brand, which is peated whisky.

The Embra release from Holyrood distillery is their first foray into peated whisky.

This Lowland distillery, instead of focusing on cask maturation like many young distilleries, actually focuses on different types of heritage barley and several strains of yeast.

Generally, batches of Springbank's 10 Year are a mixture of ex-bourbon maturation and ex-sherry maturation.

Bushmills, or Distillery 51 as it's known in the Society, has been the source for relatively few bottlings for SMWS.

The Scotch Malt Whisky Society bottled this single malt at cask strength at the end of that maturation; 55.8%, to be exact.

Despite the long maturation, the Society suggests that this is still a "lively" tasting experience.

One of our favorite peated brands to taste at 20+ years old is Laphroaig: the medicinal, heavily peated distillate sometimes takes on a more subtle yet rich character.

This Scotch 4 Dummies single cask spent about 5 years maturing in an ex-bourbon barrel; after that, another 1 to 2 years was spent in that Port wine cask.

Adorned with a reflective gold horse topper, this bottle is clearly meant to be eye candy.

Most of our past experience with Glenturret is actually with their peated whiskies, and this remains the only unpeated version that we've tried.

This single cask was made with Glenturret’s peated distillate, or 'Ruadh Mhor.'