Category: Whisky Reviews
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Roe & Co Beyond the Blend: blending your own Irish whiskey on James’s Street
Roe & Co Beyond the Blend is a 45-minute whiskey workshop at the distillery on James’s Street, Dublin, housed in the former Guinness Power Station. You taste three premium Roe & Co whiskeys paired with artisan confectionery by chocolatier Tara Gartlan, blend your own from the components, then turn that blend into a cocktail. It…
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Teeling Distillery tour review: the Dublin experience where you can bottle your own single cask
The best part of the Teeling Distillery tour isn’t on the tour. It’s the moment afterwards, standing under a neon “Bottle Your Own” sign, pulling your own whiskey straight from a cask, corking it, hand-labelling it, and walking out with a bottle nobody else in the world has. We filled a cask-strength Single Pot Still…
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Jameson Distillery Bow St, Dublin: the Black Barrel Blending Class is the reason to find the laneway
Jameson Distillery Bow St. is Jameson’s original 1780 home in Smithfield, Dublin, now a visitor distillery with two bars, a serious shop and a full spread of tastings and classes. We visited in August 2025 and took the Black Barrel Blending Class: a 90 minute, small group masterclass led by a Jameson Craft Ambassador where…
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Pearse Lyons Distillery review: the Dublin whiskey distillery built inside a church
There is a copper pot still sitting on the altar of a former Dublin church, framed by stained glass, and it is one of the more remarkable sights in Irish whiskey. That church is the Pearse Lyons Distillery, and we took the Legacy Tour to see whether the setting is the whole story or just…
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Jim Beam Cadillac F1 Team 2026: the bourbon giant joins the grid with a £24.95 Kentucky straight
very few whisky brand chasing Formula 1 right now is reaching for prestige. Jim Beam has done the opposite: it has put its Cadillac F1 partnership on a bottle of standard White Label and priced it at £24.95. Jim Beam has become an Official Partner of the Cadillac Formula 1 Team, and to mark it…
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The Macallan Six Pillars and Red Collection, assembled for one night at Kunsten in Aalborg by Rare Wine
Seeing one bottle from The Macallan Six Pillars Collection is rare enough. Seeing all six Lalique decanters lined up together, in the same room, on the same evening, is the kind of thing that almost never happens outside the distillery’s own archive. That is exactly what Rare Wine put in front of us at Kunsten…
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SMWS June 2026 Outturn: we tasted the line-up, and restraint beat the sherry whisky
The most restrained cask in the SMWS June 2026 Outturn won. Of the four we ranked, the one with the lightest sherry touch, a second-fill refill oloroso, walked past the heavyweight first-fill PX and oloroso bottles to take top spot. That is a useful reminder that more sherry is not always more whisky. The June…
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Johnnie Walker Cask Draw Tasting: five rare drams from the Edinburgh cellar, honestly reviewed
Down a level from the heart of Princes Street, in a cooled cellar most visitors never see, you can draw a dram of Roseisle straight from the cask. Not a bottle. The cask. And Roseisle, Diageo’s newest distillery, is a name most whisky drinkers have never tasted as a single malt at all. That is…
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Johnnie Walker Fill Your Own Bottle: the Edinburgh souvenir no one can copy
There is a bottle of Johnnie Walker on our shelf with our own name engraved into the glass. Every time we open it and pour for friends, the first question is the same: how did you get your name on a Johnnie Walker? That bottle is the Johnnie Walker Fill Your Own Bottle experience, and…
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Johnnie Walker Journey of Flavour: an honest review of the £30 signature tour
A live performer strides across moving walkways telling the story of a Kilmarnock grocer, the lights swing from a soft glow to a full Times Square finale, and you are holding a highball mixed to match a wristband you were given at the door. This is the Johnnie Walker Journey of Flavour, and it is…
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