Reviews — Expert Ratings & Tasting Notes Across All Spirits

10775 reviews found

Straight Rye

Sazerac Rye 6 Year Old: America's First Cocktail — From Peychaud's Apothecary to Buffalo Trace at 90 Proof

Named after America's first cocktail. In 1838, Creole apothecary Antoine Peychaud mixed brandy, absinthe, and his propri...

Buy £1250.00 Review

Ash Carrington April 10, 2026

8.5 Review

Single Malt

GlenAllachie 12 Year Old: Billy Walker's Speyside Revival — World's Best Single Malt 2025, PX and Oloroso Sherry at 46%

Crowned World's Best Single Malt at the World Whiskies Awards 2025. Billy Walker — the man who transformed BenRiach and ...

Buy £41.56 Review

Joe Whitfield April 10, 2026

Jura 10 Year Old: One Road, One Distillery, One Pub — Where George Orwell Wrote 1984 on Scotland's Most Remote Island - whisky Review

7 Review

Single Malt

Jura 10 Year Old: One Road, One Distillery, One Pub — Where George Orwell Wrote 1984 on Scotland's Most Remote Island

One road, one distillery, one pub, fewer than 200 residents — outnumbered by approximately 5,000 red deer. George Orwell...

Buy £31.95 Review

Joe Whitfield April 10, 2026

Teeling Small Batch: Dublin's First New Distillery in 125 Years — Rum Cask Finished Irish Whiskey at 46% - whisky Review

7 Review

Blended Irish

Teeling Small Batch: Dublin's First New Distillery in 125 Years — Rum Cask Finished Irish Whiskey at 46%

In 1782, Walter Teeling established a distillery in Dublin's Liberties. In 2015, Jack and Stephen Teeling opened the fir...

Buy £34.90 Review

Joe Whitfield April 10, 2026

Yamazaki 12 Year Old: Japan's First Whisky Distillery, Founded 1923 — Mizunara Oak, Bourbon, and Sherry in Harmony - whisky Review

8.5 Review

Single Malt

Yamazaki 12 Year Old: Japan's First Whisky Distillery, Founded 1923 — Mizunara Oak, Bourbon, and Sherry in Harmony

From Japan's first and oldest malt whisky distillery, established 1923 by Shinjiro Torii on the outskirts of Osaka. Firs...

Buy £131.51 Review

Ash Carrington April 10, 2026

Glenkinchie 12 Year Old: The Edinburgh Malt — Diageo's Classic Malts Lowland Representative from Scotland's Garden Distillery - whisky Review

7 Review

Single Malt

Glenkinchie 12 Year Old: The Edinburgh Malt — Diageo's Classic Malts Lowland Representative from Scotland's Garden Distillery

The Edinburgh Malt — the closest distillery to the capital, in the rolling farmland of Pencaitland, East Lothian. Known ...

Buy £44.95 Review

Joe Whitfield April 10, 2026

Wild Turkey Rare Breed: Jimmy Russell's Barrel Proof Pioneer — 6, 8, and 12 Year Old Bourbons at 116.8 Proof - whisky Review

8 Review

Kentucky Straight Bourbon

Wild Turkey Rare Breed: Jimmy Russell's Barrel Proof Pioneer — 6, 8, and 12 Year Old Bourbons at 116.8 Proof

Launched in 1991 by Master Distiller Jimmy Russell — 'the Buddha of Bourbon' — who joined Wild Turkey in 1954 and is now...

Buy £59.15 Review

Joe Whitfield April 10, 2026

8.2 Review

Single Malt

Dalmore 15 Year Old

A Highland single malt finished across three González Byass sherry cask types — unapologetically rich, sweet, and sherri...

Buy £105.90 Review

Duncan Cairns April 10, 2026

Old Grand-Dad 114: Basil Hayden's High-Rye Ancestor at Barrel Proof — 27% Rye, 114 Proof, Fantastic Value - whisky Review

7.5 Review

Kentucky Straight Bourbon

Old Grand-Dad 114: Basil Hayden's High-Rye Ancestor at Barrel Proof — 27% Rye, 114 Proof, Fantastic Value

Named after Basil Hayden Sr., an 18th-century Maryland Catholic distiller who migrated to Kentucky and pioneered a high-...

Buy £59.95 Review

Joe Whitfield April 10, 2026

Glenfarclas 15 Year Old: Six Generations of the Grant Family — Pure Oloroso Sherry Cask Since 1865 - whisky Review

8 Review

Single Malt

Glenfarclas 15 Year Old: Six Generations of the Grant Family — Pure Oloroso Sherry Cask Since 1865

One of the last independent family-owned distilleries in Scotland — the Grant family since 1865, now in their 6th genera...

Buy £72.99 Review

Joe Whitfield April 10, 2026

Amrut Fusion: Jim Murray's 3rd Best Whisky in the World — Indian and Scottish Barley United at 50% in Bangalore - whisky Review

8.5 Review

Single Malt

Amrut Fusion: Jim Murray's 3rd Best Whisky in the World — Indian and Scottish Barley United at 50% in Bangalore

Jim Murray awarded it 97 points in his Whisky Bible 2010, naming it the 3rd best whisky in the world — 'one of the great...

Buy £55.75 Review

Ash Carrington April 10, 2026

Royal Brackla 12 Year Old: The King's Own Whisky — First Distillery to Receive a Royal Warrant in 1835 - whisky Review

7 Review

Single Malt

Royal Brackla 12 Year Old: The King's Own Whisky — First Distillery to Receive a Royal Warrant in 1835

The first distillery in Scotland to receive a Royal Warrant — granted by King William IV in 1835 after he ordered Brackl...

Buy £62.50 Review

Joe Whitfield April 10, 2026