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The WhiskyNerds return with a 2003 Ben Nevis The WhiskyNerds are back and have filled shelf space at Dutch retailers with a new Ben Nevis from a lesser seen vintage. As I travel yearly with these guys, I had the great pleasure of following the progression of this cask over a couple of years. This…

Tasting Ben Nevis single malt trio at middle age level Ben Nevis was always something of a secret, its quality only clear to those in the know, the connaisseur with a taste for the more complex spirit. That was, until a certain vintage became such an explosive success, everybody was talking about Ben Nevis. The…

Beware of the Bowmore Bombastic!  That the whisky market is changing at a speedy rate, no one will have missed. Of course, this threatens jobs in the industry and might lead to closures or mothballing of distilleries. These cycles seem to repeat themselves every so many years. Sad but inevitable. So for a whole generation,…

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…