Categorie: B
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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,…
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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.…
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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…
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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…
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Discovering the Speyside joy of Braes of Glenlivet Sometimes you just have to fish an odd sample out of the bin, right? Today, we taste a Speyside single malt that always happens to confuse people. That is because of a name change somewhere along the way. You see, Chivas Brothers when it was still called…
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Always away from the spotlights: 200 year old Ben Nevis Ben Nevis always was a single malt whisky that was readily available for independent bottlers. If you are such an entrepreneur and you did not bottle a Ben Nevis 1996, why are you even in the business? Joking of course, but it is save to…
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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,…