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What to do when you have one full day on Islay? It seems like an age ago already, which confronts me with the speed of everyday life, but this entry to Tom’s Dram Diary is about my visit to Islay in January 2025. With only one full day on the island, we had to cram…
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Fragrant drops from an Inchgower on Sauterness On our quest to put at least every working Scottish distillery on this blog once, we discovered an expression of Inchgower in our sample drawer. Inchgower is one of the big workhorse distilleries in Scotland, mostly providing blending stock for the Bell’s blended whisky. Being a Diageo plant,…
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Isle of Raasay: characterful whisky from the isles It would be far fetched to state that every self-respecting Scottish island has a distillery or two these days. In any case did the Isle of Raasay join the ranks of Islay, Mull and Arran when the distillery of the same name started distilling in 2017. As…
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Helmets on! Inchmurrin fruit explosion incoming! The discovery of “Littmillesque” Inchmurrin from the Loch Lomond Distillery is often attributed to independent bottlers The WhiskyNerds with their three-way release of the “Trias Usquebaugh”. It was my pride and joy to be included in the creation of these bottlings, working on the labels for each expression, called…
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A jazzy cacophony of independent Lagavulin whisky The Islay Jazz Festival kicks off today and for whisky enthusiasts who are total barbarians and do not care about one of the most interesting music genres on this planet, there is always the special bottling done. (Or get “Whisky and Jazz” by Hans Offringa and get into…
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Rare lowland single malts: Inverleven and Rosebank Well, at least one of them is rare. With the reopening of Rosebank Distillery in Falkirk it is almost as if the resurrection of the lowlands as a whisky region to be reckoned with has come full circle. It will still be some years until we can buy Rosebank again…
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A Merry Christmas with four Islay Giants Let me start this special blog with wishing all my readers a Merry Christmas! Today, we slow down and take a moment to reflect on the year that lies behind us. Happy times and sadness have close ties to each other. Today, I attended a funeral for my…
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The Springbank Society European Tour stopped in the little town of Zaltbommel on Saturday 3 Augustus 2024. The organization behind this tour could not have chosen a better location. Not only is Zaltbommel an ancient town with lots of architectural marvel, it has hosted a lot of famous visitors too. A sickly Karl Marx spent weeks…