Categorie: H
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Bridging the gap between Genever and Whisky Hooghoudt is a very well known name in the Dutch distilled spirits landscape. Over here, they are most famous for their Genever. The family owned business is in production since 1888 and are awarded the royal status, which is common for companies that are over 100 years of…
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Hand Filled Distillery Exclusives from Campbeltown The distillery exclusive bottlings at Springbank Distillery are something really special, if you compare to offers from other distilleries. In the visitor shop, you cannot miss a few big glass demijohns with a tap and a sign on it. Here you can taste and draw your own stuff, and…
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Tasting notes for Holyrood single malt: Embra & Ambir Upon visiting the Holyrood Distillery in Edinburgh in late December 2024, we were quite taken by all the quality spirit we got to taste. While taking back whisky on a plane is quite a challenge these days, Holyrood offered a nice solution. A lot of their…
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New make Holyrood inspired by Black Cork beer Holyrood is making a solid name for themselves being the experimental and just plain fun distillery. I am going to visit them at the end of December and I cannot wait! So curious what I will think of this establishment. In the meantime, we keep patience with…
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Visiting Holyrood Distillery: a shock to the system From the three distilleries my wife and me visited at the end of December 2024, I wrote my entry for Tom’s Dram Diary about Holyrood the last. It was actually the first distillery we visited when we landed in Edinburgh. We had a cold and fantastic day…
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Secretive stuff (Highland Park) from Orkney When I look up from the desk from which I write the blogs for Whisky Odyssey, my eyes fall immediately on two standard Highland Park expressions. The 10 years old Viking Scars and the 12 years old Viking Honour. Decent stuff, very competitively priced for sure, but also a…
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The Hearach batch 10 – muscled newcomer! It must be an universal truth that whisky drinkers speak better Gaelic than most of the population in Scotland and other regions where the language is still alive. While looking into the (to me quite unknown) operation of the Isle of Harris Distillery, I stumbled upon this charming little…
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Hazelburn 15 years old and a little surprise too Hazelburn is the third and latest added variation that is produced at the Springbank Distillery. It seems to me that saving Campbeltown as one of the traditional whisky regions has become a less pressing matter than it once was. Glen Scotia is a healthy operation, and…
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Holyrood: the dawn of a singular voice in Scotch Holyrood is an exciting new name in the Scotch whisky industry. Mostly because they are already known for taking quite the different approach to making the stuff. Holyrood uses a variety of different yeast types and different mash bills. We also read more traditional names, like…
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Highland Park 2013 with strong vanilla signature Stop the presses! We got breaking news here! A Highland Park single malt whisky bottled under its own name. Yes, that is cause for celebration. In recent years we have been spoiled with very good to excellent “Secret Orkney” bottlings that left no mystery around its origins. But…