Categorie: G
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Mystery Malt Glen Grant: elegant at 26 years of age The Thompson Brothers are rapidly becoming everybody’s favourite independent bottler, and a batch of releases most of us look forward to are the Mystery Malt bottles. You get a black bottle with a big white question mark on it, and then you just have to…
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Glenburgie from excellent oloroso sherry butts Christmas is some time behind us, but to commemorate the fun of the holidays, and the whisky I bought then, today this blog. My local retailer always sends me a text when he gets a new batch of this or that whisky, also including the Signatory releases. The 100…
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Virgin oak on a malt from Glasgow Distillery The Thompson Brothers are rapidly becoming everybody’s favourite independent bottler, and a batch of releases most of us look forward to are the Mystery Malt bottles. You get a black bottle with a big white question mark on it, and then you just have to unwrap the…
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Elegant Glenlossie at a respectable age Maltbarn released a very special Glenlossie last year (in 2025 that is) at a very respectable age. A sample of this landed in my lap and I thought it would be a nice one to kick off the first proper Long Pour Session of 2026. It also got me…
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Glen Garioch single malt from the early 1990s Glen Garioch is perhaps the least known of the three Morrison Bowmore owned distilleries, that also includes the Bowmore Distillery on Islay and the recently revamped Glaswegian facility of Auchentoshan. All of them are now actually part of Beam Suntory, making it one big family with the…
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Glenfiddich with Christmas, IPA, snow and a fast car The time of Christmas and snow has always played an integral role in the history of the Glenfiddich Distillery in Dufftown. One of the most destructive snowstorms to hit the region, raged over the valley on Christmas Day 1886. William Grant and his large family of…
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Glenrothes: distilled in the cathedral of whisky Would you believe me if I said that since I started blogging I have spent maybe four or five lines on a Glenrothes single malt whisky? Well, it is true! As part of the very first releases of the Signatory 100 proof series, I tasted one (and I…
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Glen Ord 17 years old Special Releases 2025 with mezcal A few weeks ago, I visited the Art of Drinks in Amsterdam, where one of the highlights was an older release of the Singleton of Glen Ord at 14 years old. That expression was influenced by Pyrenean and Spanish oak ends (yes, indeed) and I…
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Smooth sailing with Glenglassaugh on a PX-cask It has been a long while since I tasted Glenglassaugh. The whisky from the North Sea coast has not even featured on this blog yet, until today. The distillery slipped under my radar ever since my visit to the site in 2013, en 2011 before that. It was…
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Glendronach gives us the Master’s Anthology Master Blender Rachel Berrie is one of the big names in the whisky industry, so when she creates, we humble whisky lovers take note. The Master’s Anthology is quite a hefty name for a series of Glendronach bottlings that explores sherry maturation. According to an article I read in…