The East has always had a larger whisky footprint than the beach blessed, sun kissed West. The subject of this review takes us a bit further east, over to our neighbours, the Black Caps! Scapegrace is a New Zealand based distillery that was started in 2014 by brothers in law Dan McLaughlin and Mark Neal. The…
Month: Apr 2026
Review : Watkins Whisky Small Batch Single Malt
It took a second visit to Queensland, a work trip, that had me catch a glimpse, a dark blur of what later (on second glance) was an unorthodox shaped bottle. The last time I entered this very shop at the airport, plus a few runs around the local liquor stores yielded nothing more than crickets,…
Review : Benriach 12 – The Lunar New Year Edition, The Year of the Horse!
The weekend that passed was wet, the garden drenched, the roof bearing more than its fair share of blown away leaves and my three year old cavoodle trotting home with muddied feet and a trail of paws from the door to our living room. Western Australia had been visited by cyclone Narelle along its coast, and…
Uisce Beatha | My Whisk'e'y Diaries 