Review #965 - Heaven Hill 9 Year Bottled-In-Bond Double Mash
This bourbon combines two different classic Heaven Hill bourbon mashbills: the typical ryed bourbon, as well as their wheated mashbill.
Review #964 - Balblair 25 Year
Here's a well-aged single malt from Balblair in the Highlands: their 25 Year Old bottling.
Review #963 - Laphroaig Willem Dafoe Limited Edition
The latest Scotch whisky brand with a celebrity collaboration - here we have Laphroaig and their Willem Dafoe Limited Edition.
Review #962 - Benromach Contrasts: Peat Smoke (2014)
Here we have the Peat Smoke release from the Contrasts series, specifically a batch distilled in 2014 and bottled in 2023.
Review #961 - Glendronach Ode to the Dark
Dr. Rachel Barrie of Brown-Forman introduced the Master's Anthology series in 2024, and it's comprised of three bottlings which focus on different nuances.
Review #960 - Highland Park Cask Strength Release No. 2
Finally, we get to see that high-strength potential in some official Highland Parks: the Cask Strength series.
Review #959 - Kilchoman Maury Cask Matured
Kilchoman has matured or finished their whisky in just about every cask type imaginable at this point; here's a new entry from them in 2026, a Maury Cask Matured single malt.
Review #958 - Bushmills 16 Year Single Malt
Bushmills claims to be the oldest licensed distillery in the world; they have records going all the way back to 1608.
Review #957 - Auld Blow-In Port Dundas 14 Year
Here we have an unusual bottling: the Backbone Bourbon Company, a non-distilling producer (NDP) based in Indiana, typically bottles American whiskies like MGP-distilled rye, but they've branched out and bottle a single grain Scotch.
Review #956 - SMWS 10.271 'Wholly Smoke' - Bunnahabhain 10 Year
This is made with the heavily peated Bunnahabhain distillate.
Review #955 - Cu Bocan 15 Year 2023 Edition
Tomatin is generally known for their product of unpeated malt whisky, but they do also produce a lightly peated line in more limited quantities.
Review #954 - Oban 10 Year Special Release 2022 Re-Review
This whisky came out back in 2022, so it's been sitting in the bottle with a decent amount of air for 3 to 4 years now.
Review #953 - Kilchoman 10 Year Marsala Cask Finish - ImpEx Cask Evolution
Kilchoman is a spirit that works quite well in just about any type of cask - we've found it to be very versatile in our experience.
Review #952 - Thompson Bros TB/BSW
Thompson Bros don't tell us specifically which casks are used in this blend, but they do state on the label that they selected components which "celebrate sherry maturation.”
Review #951 - Thompson Bros SRV5 Blended Malt
Today, we're looking at one of the Thompson Bros’ core products: a blended malt called SRV5, which stands for Station Road Vat 5.
Review #950 - Bruichladdich 14 Year Yellow Submarine [Reclassified]
To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the reinvigoration of their distillery, Bruichladdich released 3 limited edition whiskies in 2026.
Review #949 - Longrow 21 Year (2020)
Longrow bottlings use heavily peated, double-distilled spirit from Springbank.
Review #948 - Found North 19 Year T8ke 'The Eleventh Hour'
Following up on last year's Found North 19 Year 'Ten Years of T8ke' release, there's another new Found North for the 11th anniversary of T8ke.
Review #947 - Longrow 114 Proof (Batch 2)
This bottle should be more available than the old Longrow Red wine cask series, but considering Longrow represents only a small fraction of Springbank's already small-ish output, this is still a bottle that might be tricky to find.
Review #946 - Longrow 114 Proof (Batch 1)
Because 'proof' is defined differently here in the United States, Springbank changed the name to 114 Proof so that they could keep the bottling strength around 57% ABV.