The Maker North Star Spirits is a relatively new entrant to the growing independent bottling scene. It was established by husband and...

The Maker In the two decades I’ve been drinking whisky I’ve rarely bought anything other than single malt. Sure, I began with some awful...

The Maker Berry Brothers & Rudd (BB&R) is one of the world’s leading wine merchants having been established in 1698 on St James’s Street...

The Maker Founded way back in 1846 and named for its location overlooking the Islay Straight between it and Jura, Caol Ila has gone...

The Maker Bunnahabhain is one of the great Islay distilleries. Founded in 1881 on the shores of the Sound of Islay overlooking Jura,...

The Maker Thomson was founded in 2009 by husband and wife team Mathew and Rachael. While they began as an independent bottler with the...

The Maker For millions around the world Laphroaig represents their first taste of whisky. I’ll go further to suggest that for a...

The Maker A little over a decade ago I had my first taste of ‘English Whisky’. It was from what was then called the English Whisky...

The Maker As distilleries go few have had as interesting a history as Clynelish. Indeed, the distillery we now know as Clynelish isn’t...

The Maker What is there to say about Springbank which hasn’t been said many times before? Over the past decade it has easily become the...

The Maker Regular readers (Ha!) will be no strangers to Caol Ila given that while this is only my 19th full bottle review it’s also my...

The Maker Craigellachie is one of those distilleries about which it’s rather difficult to say interesting things. This isn’t a criticism...

The Maker The Cooper’s Choice is a single cask range of independent bottlings from The Vintage Malt Whisky Company. Established in 1992...

Caol Ila (North Star) Whisky Review

The Maker Murray McDavid was the 1994 brainchild of established whisky and wine merchants Gordon Wright, Mark Reynier and Simon Coughlin....

The Maker The GlenAllachie Distillery is rather modern among its Speyside compatriots and is most famed for having gone through a recent...

The Maker If you’re the kind of whisky drinker who follows what’s going on in the industry then you’re likely already well aware of...

The Maker Aberlour is one of those classic brands that existed in my consciousness long before I started drinking whisky. This is most...

The Maker Glen Scotia, or simply ‘Scotia’ as it was originally known, was founded back in 1832 in Campbeltown, on the Kintyre peninsula....

The Maker Gordon & MacPhail are among the oldest and largest independent bottlers in Scotland having been founded in 1895. Like a number...