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Complexity aplenty in this Benromach 2008 We love a good Benromach from time to time on LPA! In fact, one of the very first blogs we did was tasting notes for a Benromach Vintage release. We tend to lean towards the very naked Benromach expression, meaning: matured on bourbon casks. Today, we must be in…

Bunnahabhain Day 2026 with a hint of White Port The last time we tasted Bunnahabhain, it was rumoured that this 50 years old was made at that Islay distillery. Today, for our Feis Ile special, we take a closer look at a proprietary bottling released by Bunnahabhain not so long ago. I would almost sigh:…

Clean Bowmore and a slightly unwashed Bowmore Some stories are as great as the hardships that had to be overcome in them. This certainly rings true for Bowmore Distillery, which had some kind of a dark age in the 1980s, a time when whisky was made that was barely good enough to wash your dishes…

Celebrating the resurrection of Bruichladdich I once heard it said that Bruichladdich Day is the one Feis Ile day the Ileach themselves enjoy the most. I can certainly understand why, based on the two visits I did to this day while celebrating Feis Ile, the last time being exactly ten years ago. There was lots…

Braeval battle between bourbon and sherry casks Sometimes you never drink Breaval, and for us this is already the second blog about this Speyside distillery in the first half of 2026! Well, technically we tasted a Braes of Glenlivet earlier this year, but the name of the distillery changed to Braeval in 1994. Anyway, we…

Scoring Bowmore Tequila with a grain of salt The Bowmore Distillery on Islay is quietly purring away making excellent malt whisky, with its beloved floor malting and subtle peated output. The only thing I might have overheard people complaining about, is the recent change in bottle livery. I am not totally against it, but I…

Three wildly differing Blair Athol with lots of impact We are going to sink our teeth into one of our favourite distilleries in Perthshire, which is Blair Athol. A silent but strong single malt, modestly churning out loads and loads of malt as a signature for the Bell’s blend. It was, way back in 2005,…

Bunnahabhain giants (50 years) from old vintages! Bunnahabhain has always been the odd one in the family of Islay distilleries. Famously aiming to be the one non-peated single malt coming from this island, it is actually funny that in recent years their peated variant Staoisha has become such a standard for high quality peated malt.…

Balmenach shines bright on sherry maturation The sadly overlooked whisky production side of the Balmenach Distillery is a thorn in my side. This quite singular and characterful single malt deserves so much more spotlight than being a black sheep next to the popular gin Caorunn, that is also produced on site. Of all the distilleries…

Blended Scotch and Blended Malt Galore!  In the course of months, we accumulated a bunch of samples of blended (malt) Scotch and one Irish. So, we collected here, blends galore! Without further ado, let us dive in.  Monkey Shoulder blended malt Scotch whisky, Smoky Monkey, bottled at 40 % abv First things first: From William…