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Happy birthday to me, celebrated with old classics! Welcome to my birthday blog! As I blow out 45 candles today, it is my pleasure to treat you on something special. You see, maybe I am a weird one when it comes to whisky, but more than anything else, I always loved the continuity of standard…
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Brora: the most brilliant mistake in whisky history Chances are, you are exhausted by the time you get to read this. Christmas Eve is upon us, we gathered a mountain of groceries, the tree is lit and the fireplace is stocked. Time to kick back with a good dram. For this special night of the…
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December belongs to sherried whisky, with Balvenie Can you think of two distilleries further removed from each other than Balvenie and Lagavulin? Thinking of the soft and honeyed Speysider from Dufftown, it might be hard to consider that there is shared DNA with the Islay royalty that is Lagavulin, with its powerful peat and lemon…
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Big Peat comes knocking on your door with fat PX Big Peat is a very popular blended malt in the regional series done by Douglas Laing. Normally, I am not the biggest fan of blended malt and the stories that are needed to create the experience, but somehow these series work very well. Most importantly,…
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Benromach 2014 from identical single sherry casks It has been a while since we tasted a few Benromach, not since February of this year. We found some samples in the drawer that were quite young and both matured on sherry casks. We are going to try them here, head to head, as they are both…
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The Single Oak Project: Buffalo Trace spoiled the geeks If you think the Glenfarclas Family Cask series was an impressive whisky collection, we can geek you out by explaining what the Buffalo Trace Distillery over in Kentucky did with their whiskey. They created the Single Oak Project and they call it ‘the most extensive bourbon…
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Bowmore on bourbon: guarantee for success? Bowmore has been off the grid for a few years when it comes to independent expressions, but I notice a change. Of course, the more exclusive and therefore less affordable expressions were always there, but at entry level we missed out. For today’s session, we put some youngsters on…
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Benriach at its absolute peak with Signatory We kick off the week with this first of two 100 proof bottlings we will review this week. Be sure to check back in on Wednesday when we taste the new Longrow 100 proof (among others). For today, we turn to a series released by Signatory Vintage that…
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Pass the fruit: Bushmills in the tasting glass Always nice to visit part of the core range of a certain distillery. Today, we put the spotlight on an old but strong brand: Bushmills. We are drinking Irish whiskey here, but this product comes from Northern Ireland actually. Bushmills is the oldest licensed distillery in the…
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Exploring independent releases of Blair Athol One never forgets his first time! Blair Athol was the very first distillery I visited, in October 2005. The experience was decent enough, with a basic but sufficient (Diageo style) tour of the distillery, and going home with the beautiful Flora & Fauna expression in the bag. For the…