This is our first time reviewing an Ardnamurchan which was bottled by the Scotch Malt Whisky Society, despite how much we love both the distillery and bottler.

Eagle Rare is made using Buffalo Trace's 'mashbill #1,' which is not explicitly disclosed, but is understood to have low-rye bourbon proportions.

There's no age statement on this bottle either, but it's generally made up of whisky aged between 6 and 12 years.

We know the specific age of this single barrel variant, which was picked by the Wiseguy Lounge bar chain: it's 6 years and 11 months.

With the slowdown in the whisky market in the past year or two, distilleries are coming up with new releases to monetize their well-aged inventory.

Loch Lomond is generally a distillery which can be found at a reasonable price, even with a higher age statements.

From the Scotch Malt Whisky Society's 'Spicy & Sweet' flavor profile, we have this 17 year unpeated Loch Lomond single malt.

We helped select this Caol Ila for bottling during the SMWS Tasting Panel Experience in 2025.

This whisky was aged in a Sauternes wine cask; this sweet fortified white wine from France generally adds bright, sweet, floral notes such as honey, orchard fruit.

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.