Categorie: D
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Tasting an experiment: The Deanston Orange Wine cask When I started out in my whisky passion, I never could have predicted the incredible growth Deanston single malt eventually would go through. Checking the numbers in the Malt Whisky Yearbook 2026, we read about a 100 % increase in sales in just four years. Today, we…
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Dalmunach: the Big Friendly Giant whisky producer Dalmunach is perhaps best compared to Diageo’s Roseisle Distillery. It is huge in capacity, and delivers malt whisky to the biggest blends in the world. But where the comparison is totally off, is the availability of the malt as its own brand. Roseisle has of course had some…
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Single Estate Bus Whisky: sipping for a better world In the tiniest of hamlets called Bus, in the Dutch province Noord-Brabant, there is a small distillery of the same name to be found. Surrounded by farmland, the story of how whisky started dripping from the still there is a remarkable one. My dear whisky-and-food pairing…
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Popular Deanston on the tasting table today Deanston Distillery is certainly a popular single malt whisky, if the “Whiskybase Wrapped” is anything to go on. The brand is second only to Springbank as the top rated distillery of 2025, with an average score of 87,87 for all their releases over that year. The top names…
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Peaty winner at the first Dram1 Awards 2025 A brand new and consumer driven Whisky Award was announced somewhere mid-September and I thought it would be fun to partake in this. So, when the package arrived on the first day of October, I could not wait to get started. The rules are simple and laid…
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Welcome to December with sherried Dailuaine Welcome to December! The month of togetherness, creeping close to the fire, snow outside and a glass of whisky in your hand inside. We take our single malt with a bit more spice in these times, while we countdown to Christmas. So, to kick off this month of joy,…
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The Double Barrel experiment by Douglas Laing Today, we travel back in our time machine to nearly 15 years ago, when Douglas Laing released a few expressions based on the idea of mixing two different single malt whiskies together. These naughty boys and girls even mentioned (whispered!) the concept of vatted malt on their labels.…
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Ardnamurchan, Dailuaine and Glengoyne by 12 Barrels A Dutch band of brothers named “12 Barrels” at one point bought … you guessed it … 12 casks of whisky, to be bottled over the years. Most of the bottlings are done with an own label, but some distilleries do not really go for that. The 12…
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The Dalmore: whisky steeped in heritage Yes, finally, the first Dalmore expressions on this whisky blog! If you follow whisky like I do, chances are that you are also a member of the Facebook group called Whisky Memes. Dalmore (together with Jura) is one of those brands that people like to represent as the absolute…
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Dalmunach from octave casks: do we need that? Today is not so much about Dalmunach, which is for little under a decade now the workhorse distillery of Chivas/Pernod Ricard. The stamp on the tasting note of today is created by independent bottler Duncan Taylor. They have released no less than 64 expressions of Dalmunach that…