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The Whisky Odyssey Fèis Ìle 2024 SpecialCaol Ila Day: tasting a few Fèis Ìle releases My good friend Anton van K. ruined me for life when he gave me a taste of the legendary Caol Ila Manager’s Dram. A sherry monster of a whisky if there ever was one, and one of those rare occasions that…
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Unpeated Malt Week:Tasting notes for the Special Releases Caol Ila Unpeated For the blogs on Long Pour Amour, I not only draw from my own archives. I also get or buy interesting examples from whisky enthusiasts all over the world. As it turned out, for this week a theme was forming: Unpeated Whisky. A strange…
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Tasting notes for two 1990s Speysiders Continuing our path through the decades this week with two Speyside whiskies distilled in the 1990s. At one point, both were to be closed distilleries, but Glen Keith is nowadays back as a workhorse distillery for the Chivas blends. The distillery seems to have heritage, it was built in Speyside and…
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Tasting notes for a sherried Craigellachie by Signatory Signatory is an independent bottler that has been around for ages, but I have a feeling that this year has really put them back firmly in the middle of independent bottling universe. The 100 proof series that we have tasted extensively on this blog are generally very…
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Superb waxy Clynelish from the 1996 vintage It has become a bit confrontational to realize that vintages that used to be “back-up brilliance” for the really good stuff, is now coming of age too. In today’s example, I am talking about Clynelish. In my early days of drinking whisky, whenever I got the chance, I…
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Caol Ila Unpeated: like fish without chips? Diageo surprised the enthusiastic lovers of whisky in general and Islay in particular, by releasing an unpeated Caol Ila in 2006 as part of their annual Special Releases series. It was something to take in. Caol Ila without peat, is that not the same as fish without chips?…
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Tasting notes for three 1980s Speysiders For those of us who have been around a little longer than yesterday in this beautiful world of drinking, tasting and collecting whisky, it is fun to sometimes look over your shoulder. “What was I drinking when I first got into whisky?” If you had to point at golden…
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Single grain whisky bonanza with three distilleries Sometimes your desk starts getting filled with samples from several distilleries that slowly form a theme when combined. In the case of today’s blog, I am talking about single grain whisky. We got samples from Port Dundas, North British and a quite old Cambus. Here they are together…
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An introduction to Fragrant Drops (with wine casks) Today’s Long Pour Session is dedicated to my handyman. This incredibly enthusiastic guy is a heaven-send for me, since I truly have two left hands. So, even for hanging up a painting, I am only good enough to keep the vacuum cleaner up to where he is…
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Campbeltown Loch: the unicorn of the town Should we long for the good old days, in which Campbeltown Loch was actually a blended Scotch whisky, now that the brand has changed to being a blended malt whisky? So, no more grain component in there, all malts, in fact, all the five different malts being made…