An Orkney Distillery 18 yo 2000-2019 (57.1%, ElD)
Secret Orkney 18 yo 2000-2019 (53.1%, Le Gus’t)

Highland park is a distillery I really like but unfortunately most of the time the alcohol integration is lacking a bit in my opinion. Let’s see what’s up with those birds!

Orkney 10 yo 2009-2020 (48%, SMoS for LMDW)
Orkney 13 yo 2007-2020 « Parcel No.4 » (48%, SMoS)
Ledaig 14 yo 2005-2020 (57.1%, SMoS)
Bunnahabhain « Bn8 » 2020 (58.4%, Elements of Islay) 

Today I’m tasting some very recent Elixir Distillers releases. Those are mostly young whiskies with some honest price tag so let’s see if it’s good!

Secret Highland 19 yo 2000 (52.4%, Whisky-Doris)

This little secret highland has been listed on Whisky-Doris website as a Clynelish, so I think that we now know what kind of secret highland whisky is in the bottle!

Dornoch 3 yo 2017-2020 (59.4%, OB)
Dornoch 2 yo 2018-2020 (59.5%, OB)
Dornoch 1 yo 2019-2020 (65.45%, OB)
Bimber 3 yo 2017-2020 (57.9%, Thompson Brothers)
Bimber 3 yo 2017-2020 (57.9%, Thompson Brothers)
Bimber 2020 (57.9%, OB, cask #144)
Auchroisk 31 yo 1989 (44.6%, Thompson Brothers)

The Thompson brothers released a pack of samples which sold very quickly with some of their last bottlings. I managed to get my hands on a half of a set and I’m happy to taste this first Dornoch release : cask #001. There are also other younger Dornoch casks, the last Bimber’s and Auchroisk from Thompson’s Brothers. Let’s try those!

Craigellachie 6 yo 2013-2020 (65.3%, Asta Morris)

I always liked what Asta Moris releases, most of the time it’s great quality and low price tag. Let’s try this little frog, I have litterally no idea about what this Craigellachie will be!

Glenmorangie « A Tale of Cake » (46%, OB, 2020)
Ardbeg 5 yo « Wee Beastie » (47.4%, OB, 2020)

Those are 2 recent releases. I really wanted to try it as most of the time I’m not a big fan of NAS or really young whisky so let’s give those a try!

Teeling 21 yo 1998-2020 (52.6%, OB)
Single Malt Irish Whiskey 24 yo 2017 (46.8%, TBWC)
Ireland 26 yo 1989-2015 (49.8%, DD)
Irish S. Malt 1991-2015 (52.2%, The Whisky Mercenary)
Gelston’s 26 yo 2018 (54.2%, OB)
Irish S. Malt 26 yo 1988-2015 (45.6%, Whisky Doris)
Redbreast 19 yo 1998-2017 (55.7%, OB)

Irish whisky from the 90’s have quite a reputation. So I decided to finally try a big bag of those, I hope you guys loves exotic fruits!

Glenallachie 5 yo 2014-2020 (52.3%, LGA)
Secret Highland 9 yo 2010-2019 (53.3%, LGA)
Ardmore 22 yo 1997-2020 (50.6%, LGA
Blended Malt 18 yo 2001-2019 (46.4%, LGA
Croftengea 10 yo 2009-2020 (53.5%, LGA


I once heard some positive feedback about « Les Grands Alambics » (LGA), a good french independent bottler. Today I try their new « Birds Serie », a release of five different bottlings. It’s the first time I taste something from LGA and I was looking forward to try it so let’s get started!

Ben Nevis 23 yo 1996-2019 (51.3%, Elixir Distillers)
Ben Nevis 21 yo 1996-2018 (52.9%, Cadenhead)
Ben Nevis 22 yo 1997-2019 (48.8%, EVWC)
Ben Nevis 21 yo 1998-2019 (50.3%, EVWC)

Today I’ll test two nice Hogshead ’96 Ben Nevis and I added two bonus bottlings to the dance which are not from ’96 because… why not?!

Mortlach 25 yo 1995-2020 (45.8%, Le Gus’t)

The french independent bottler « Le Gus’t » releases another bottling and it’s a Mortlach 25 yo with a pretty fair price tag to say the least. I can’t wait to try it to be honest and I heard it’s not a typical Mortlach profile so we will see.