About Whisky Centurion
Whisky Centurion is one drinker’s honest record of a simple mission: to taste and properly get to know 100 different whiskies. It began with a realisation — that years of loyalty to a single favourite had left me peering at whisky through a very narrow window. The wider world of the spirit was waiting, and I wanted to explore it.
The focus here is deliberately down to earth: affordable, everyday, accessible whiskies — the bottles you might actually buy and drink, reviewed in plain language and good faith. No scores out of a hundred, no sponsored superlatives. Just what’s in the glass, and whether it’s worth your money.
About Chris
I’m Chris — an Englishman living near London, but a Scot by birth and at heart. I was born in Aberdeen and spent my teenage years in Elgin, in the heart of Speyside, and I’ve never quite shaken the pull of Scotland: the fresh air, the coast, the mountains and the forests.
My whisky story started young, on family distillery visits that felt magical long before I was old enough to taste anything. The real turning point came years later, on a road trip through the Highlands. After a stop at Benromach in Forres, I found Aberlour — a beautiful old distillery with whisky as smooth and easy-drinking as the setting around it. There’s been a bottle of it in my cupboard ever since.
That visit lit the fuse. One favourite became a curiosity about everything else on the shelf, and the curiosity became this site.
What you’ll find here
Every review records the things that actually matter: distillery, region, age, ABV, and whether the whisky is non-chill filtered and naturally coloured. Alongside the reviews you’ll find longer editorial pieces — guides, history and the occasional tangent — including the Whisky Wars series, a tour through the turbulent story of Scotch.
A sister project
If you’d like somewhere to keep your own tasting notes, I’ve also built Whisky Diaries — a clean, personal space to log the whiskies you’ve tried, rate them and build a wishlist. Where a bottle appears on both sites, the two are linked, so you can jump straight from your diary to the full review.