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A new wintery Daftmill for the thirsty masses Daftmill is one of the true farm distilleries of Scotland, only in production when all other work is carried out. So, even though the Cuthbert family could easily produce more of this delightful lowland single malt, they are nonetheless limited to some 65.000 litres per year. These…

Taking a look at a blended Scotch with Dewar’s The Dewar’s “double double aged” landed on my tasting desk as a gift from a fellow blogger. That this sample was only half used before being passed on, is maybe telling for the quality we will find. But there is only one way to find out,…

Dailuaine with a Clynelish character? Rumor has it that Dailuaine had a tweaked distilling regime around the turn of the first decade of this century. Clynelish had some work done and with that distillery producing cornerstone malt whisky for many of the Diageo blends, a gap in production had to be filled. The story goes…

Finally getting round to some Deanston samples There are some single malts that have never been really on my radar, and Deanston is one of them. If I tasted all together maybe 15 or 20 of them since I started getting into whisky twenty years ago, it will be rounded off upwards. Recently, my dear…

Tasting note for the Dalmunach Inaugural Release Dalmunach is a new(ish) distillery on the location of the old Imperial Distillery, which became part of the Lost Distilleries chapter when it got demolished in 2013. No chance to reopen that one. But the location is still the perfect site for a distillery. Dalmunach became one of…

Time to taste some Liberties Distillery Irish Whiskey A visit to the Dublin Liberties Distillery is highly recommended, as you could have read on this blog last week. We got nice reactions on this article, showing that a good, old distillery visit report is still a popular thing. We will try to slip one in every now…

More regularly available Dailuaine is a good thing When entering the arena of auctions, I always keep an eye out on Flora & Fauna bottlings by Diageo. A line of bottlings so dubbed by whisky writer Michael Jackson, it contained almost all distilleries owned by Diageo at one point, with the exceptions being the classic…