Categorie: F
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Fettercairn in tropical spheres battling it out Fettercairn and its sister distilleries Jura, Dalmore and Tamnavulin are all enjoying a good day in the sun for quite a few years already. All these brands have shown healthy growth in sales. Who would have thought this about ugly ducklings like Tamnavulin and Fettercairn? Now, these brands…
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Tasting The Feering, honouring The Cabrach Today’s tasting notes accompany the entry in Tom’s Dram Diary about my visit to The Cabrach Distillery. Under the guidance of Alan Winchester, in total three blended malts will be released using single casks from the distilleries surrounding The Cabrach. The three releases are bound together by the common…
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Fettercairn at entry level: a bit underwhelming In longer ago days, when I was without beard but with more hair on the top of my head, Fettercairn was a single malt very much in the shadows of the Scotch landscape. I suppose most output went to the blends of Whyte & Mackay, but there was…
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Finglassie: smoky lowland malt from InchDairnie InchDairnie Distillery positions themselves as the ingenious distillery. Located in the Fife region of Scotland (making this lowland whisky) the website roars with strong language, claiming that it will bring malt whisky tradition into the modern world. The goal is to excite palates. Well, I like this beating on the drum.…
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A regular Four Roses bourbon and a weird single malt from … Jack Daniel’s! There was a time I truly disliked whisky. This was in the early to mid-1990s, when my brother, cousin and their friends would occupy the living room late at night. The smell of shawarma and garlic sauce filling up the space.…
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Two heavily sherried Filliers from Belgium The Belgium whisky landscape is no less impressive than that of the surrounding neighbours France, Germany and The Netherlands. Filliers is a decades old distillery spanning many generations of craftspeople. Starting out with Genever, and pioneering the then-unknown product (in Belgium) gin, it was the cousins Jan and Bernard…