Categorie: G
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Glen Albyn: worth resurrecting from the past! Glen Albyn used to be one of the three active distilleries in the Highland Capital of Inverness, the other two being Glen Mhor and Millburn. All of them closed in the mid-1980s, and surprisingly it lasted till 2023 for a new distillery to finally open and put Inverness…
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Brechin: once a true whisky city with two distilleries When you think of authentic whisky cities, one might quickly mention Campbeltown, Dufftown, Rothes or Elgin. Today however, we focus on the east coast Royal Burgh of Brechin for our Something Special Saturday. Home to the almost 200 years old Glencadam Distillery, and also the place…
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Glen Grant 2000 by Wu Dram Clam: modern classic Welcome to already the 50th tasting note for the Whisky Odyssey blog! We hope you enjoy the ride as we continue to push on and serve you interesting notes, whisky and stories about them. We have now arrived at a belter of a Speyside dram, and…
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Back to the Future: the Campbeltown 1992 edition Whisky Odyssey celebrates a weekly Campbeltown Wednesday and this edition is even more special, since the good folks in Campbeltown, and numerous whisky enthusiasts from all over the world, are now there to celebrate the Malts Festival. Since my employer has only a limited amount of days…
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The Gauldrons: Glen Scotia and a spoonful? We have to use the question mark, because for sure we do not know if the headline is true. We tasted The Gauldrons, a blended malt in the Regional Series. The series are released for some years now by Douglas Laing, and seem to be quite popular. They…
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Forever blowing bubbles with Glen Garioch? Glen Garioch continues to be a bit of a blind spot for me. Like its sister distilleries Bowmore and Auchentoshan, the distillery suffered under a weird distilling regime in (predominantly) the eighties, causing a very soapy, lavender-like character in these malts. Maybe it is the Pavlov reaction to these…
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A deep dive in all the Signatory 100 proof bottlings We continue our travel down the lane of the new series by Signatory Vintage, the 100 proof expressions. When visiting my local retailer last week, he told me that the few bottles that he managed to get sold as if they were free giveaways. This…
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Eye on a newcomer: GlenWyvis 2019 “Once in a blue moon” is a great expression. And just like a blue moon is rare, so is a Leap Year. When thinking about a launch date for this whisky blog, a few options arose and today being 29 February seemed to be most fitting. This gives me…
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A naked Glen Scotia and with (a lot of) wine influence We are tasting two bottlings out of the Dunnage Warehouse Series, brought back to The Netherlands and then sampled by Nick J. Thanks for that! The background of these two bottles reminded me of a few cask samples I managed to taste during my…
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Tasting the 200th anniversary bottle of Glenlivet Scottish whisky distilleries can be so old, that I always check who was the president of the United States of America when some distillery was founded. Two hundred years ago it was James Monroe who came to the end of the Era of Good Feelings, an important political…