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Aultmore proving strength on sherry maturation In the Blind Tasting Bottle Club that I am partaking in for many years, was a devastating surprise in our most recent edition. At the reveal moment, it turned out that a strong, sherried whisky, identified by most of us as ‘perhaps a 1993 GlenDronach’ or the likes of…
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Aberlour A’Bunadh – then (1998) and now (2024) The last time I had a modern Aberlour A’Bunadh in my glass was around Christmas 2017. Long live Instagram, on which I keep a personal diary and every now and then post a pic of bottles. Aberlour keeps on numbering the batches. That one was #56. After…
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A deep dive in all the Signatory 100 proof bottlings We continue our travel down the lane of the new series by Signatory Vintage, the 100 proof expressions. When visiting my local retailer last week, he told me that the few bottles that he managed to get sold as if they were free giveaways. This…
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Ardnamurchan has reason to celebrate 10 years One of my favourite “new” distilleries is Ardnamurchan, far away in the Lochaber district in the west of Scotland. I remember travelling through these parts for a Summer holiday in 2007, taking the old-fashioned route to the Isle of Skye (by ferry from Malaig). In the distance the…
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Ardbeg 8 and 10 years old: no discussion needed As a newcomer in the world of whisky blogging, I thought it would be nice to taste some benchmark and close-to-benchmark Islay whisky. So, the next few weeks I will fly past the regulars to see what they are up to. Let’s start on the Kildalton…
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A couple of rare Isle of Arran variations (peat included) Did we all survive the days of Christmas? As the year comes to a close, we have a few blogs left to publish. That will be today and upcoming Monday, which is my birthday, and Tuesday. Let’s start with a nice late December weekend Long…
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A Merry Christmas with four Islay Giants Let me start this special blog with wishing all my readers a Merry Christmas! Today, we slow down and take a moment to reflect on the year that lies behind us. Happy times and sadness have close ties to each other. Today, I attended a funeral for my…
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Ardnahoe Society 2024 release already impressive Exclusive bottlings for members of a (most times) free admittance (fan) club of a distillery. There are many examples of companies doing it like this. Most well-known are probably the Springbank Society and the Ardbeg Committee. New Islay distillery Ardnahoe joined too with the quite straightforward name “Ardnahoe Society”.…
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Welcome to the Tasting Ledger, the place on Long Pour Amour where we collect tasting notes for the more contemporary bottlings. Ardnamurchan is as contemporary as it gets. The distillery produced its first spirit exactly 10 years ago, and this is celebrated with their first 10 years old release, that we are going to taste…