Bruichladdich 26yo 1991-2018 (55.2%, Blackadder)
Bruichladdich 29yo 1990-2020 (48.1%, Dramfool)

Today I’m gonna try two old Bruichladdich which come from the ’90s, so before they closed in 1994. I heard words about these old Bruichladdich so it’s time to taste some by myself!

Jean-Luc Pasquet 1967-2020 « #8 Le voyageur: Lot 67 » (40.6%, Malternative Belgium)

Today I’m tasting the last cognac release of « Malternative Belgium » a Belgian Independent Bottler. Well you could have guessed for the Belgian part. Let’s try it with my « Whisky-lover » point of view!

Octomore 10yo « Edition X4+10 – 2019 » (70%, OB)
Octomore 5yo 2010-2015 « Edition 07.3 » (63%, OB)

Young Bruichladdich heavily peated. That’s basically what we gonna try today. Let’s see what kind of peat monster we have in there since they mention some crazy ppm!

Hazelburn 21yo 1997-2019 (46%, OB, Open Day 2019)
Bowmore 15yo (51.7%, OB, Feis Ile 2019)
Lagavulin 19yo (53.8%, OB, Feis Ile 2019)
Caol Ila 22yo (58.4%, OB, Feis Ile 2019)

Let’s go back to the 2019 edition of the Campbeltown festival and Feis ile by trying those 4 bottlings. Let’s forget those actual strange times we are living and remember how those days were « back in the day »! (I’m feeling old just by writing this, trust me)

Springbank 19yo 2000-2019 (50.8%, Wu Dram Clan)
Springbank 26yo 1992-2020 (47.7%, Wu Dram Clan)

Here are two bottles that I wanted to try for a long time given all the good feedbacks some friends gave me, so today we managed to both of their Springbank bottlings!

Springbank 17yo 2002-2020 (47.8%, OB)

Here is on of the last Springbank release and to be honest the strange casks composition surprised me a bit so I decided to try it!

Springbank 12yo 2017 « Batch 15 » (56.5%, OB)
Springbank 15yo 2003-2019 (51.0%, OB, rum wood)

Today i’ll try two relatively cheap and easily accessible CS Springbank’s. In my memories, those 12yo CS are always good, never tried this one tough, so let’s go!

Hazelburn 11yo 2007-2019 (54.2%, OB)
LE GIN « Batch 1 » (75%, Old Brothers)
Sacapalabras « Espadín » (49.5%, OB)
Sacapalabras « Tobasiche » (49%, OB)
Sacapalabras « San Martinero » (47.2%, OB)
Sacapalabras « Tobalà » (49.1%, OB)
Sacapalabras « Ensamble » (49%, OB)
Sacapalabras « Pechuga » (50.9%, OB)

If some of you didn’t hit our live last Sunday here is the summary, without the laugh and the cringes, well it seems there is a video of it just at the bottom of this article!

Laphroaig 10yo Cask Strength « ~2005 » (57.3%, OB, Red Stripe)


To continue in this Laphroaig young OB’s series I found a very interesting dram! Here is a « Red Stripe » version of the 10yo, released in 2005’s years it slowly waited 15yo in a bottle to be tasted today!

Laphroaig 10yo « ~2018 » (40%, OB)
Laphroaig 15yo Cairdeas « 2019 Edition » (43%, OB)
Laphroaig 10yo Cask Strengh « Batch 12 – 2020 » (60.1%, OB)


I’m pretty sure a lot of you guys have already tried that Laphroaig 10yo that you can find anywhere, so let’s review this dram with some other OB’s from that great distillery!