Categorie: G
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Masterful Glen Garioch including one Samaroli Glen Garioch is not often featured on this blog, and I have yet to make a tasting note from any official release. I am sure I will get the chance to correct that soon, but for today I have three independent bottlings lined up, including one absolute legend and…
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LPA Vintage Week ends with the 1990s We come to the end of the LPA Vintage Week, and we do not go out softly, because we present three samples today. Simply because these three have been lying around for too long and deserved to be tasted. Right? Right! The 1980s and 1990s must have been…
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LPA Vintage Week: a very special Glenlivet 1980 We tasted a whisky distilled in the 1960s and then a whisky from the 1970s. On we go to the next decade, and we do that with a single cask filled at the Glenlivet Distillery, and this was done in the year 1980. Now this is a…
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A Visit to Glengoyne and A Massive Tasting Talk about your busy schedules! Together with two friends, I visited the Glengoyne Distillery all the way back in January, to shake hands with another good friend, Mr. Richard Brass. To us, he is a comrade affectionately known as “just” Richie. This is one passionate guy! We shared…
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Tasting official Glen Keith from the vintage 1998 Does anyone remember this charming little official release of Glen Keith single malt whisky? Releases from this rather unknown distillery are hard to come by, besides the offerings of independent bottlers. If you have not ever tried one, you are missing out, as Glen Keith produces quite…
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Campbeltown Malts Festival with Glen Scotia Glen Scotia will forever be the middle child in the Campbeltown family, won’t it? I mean, there is always the big brother in the spotlight (Springbank) and the youngest family member Glengyle is also gaining popularity. Who knows what will happen if new distilleries indeed open their doors and…
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Glen Elgin: a deep dive on a very rare bottle With Long Pour Amour, I aim to offer something rare every now and then. Samples that I gather from my own network or even have stashed away in my own sample library. One of the features is tasting the legendary old Rare Malts Selection bottlings.…
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Retrospective: GlenAllachie 10, 15 and 18 years old GlenAllachie might be somewhat of a darling of the whisky enthusiast, but I have to admit that the whisky never swept me off my feet. Maybe it got hyped a bit too much when Billy Walker took over. Granted, what Mr. Walker accomplished at GlenDronach and BenRiach…
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Back to the distant past with two Glen Grant Glen Grant is an interesting single malt because it is one of those precious few whiskies of which there is a lot around from several eras. As it was marketed quite progressively early on in its existence, and because of the rise to stardom in the…
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Funky Glencadam from a modest cask The Glencadam Distillery is rising more and more to prominence, and justifiably so. If I am not mistaken, the core range will soon get a fresh overhaul. Only fitting for a distillery that celebrated its bicentennial in 2025. Have you gone and taken a look at that electricity making…