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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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Lagavulin Distillery Exclusive: a textbook example A visit to Islay is not complete without a visit to the true king of the island: Lagavulin Distillery. There are few distilleries that capture the magic of peated whisky so perfectly as this one. It is with fond memories that I look back at my last visit to…
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Loch Lomond: Highland character, Scandinavian allure Loch Lomond is one of the more remarkable distilleries in Scotland, due to having quite a range of different stills to make whisky with. This means they can mix it up and create interesting combinations. The Remarkable Stills Collection wants to celebrate this “breadth of capability and spirit possibilities”,…
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The Whisky Odyssey Fèis Ìle 2024 SpecialBe ready for Laphroaig and Port Ellen Day Today we celebrate Laphroaig and Port Ellen Day. To start with the latter, sadly my sample drawer did not provide me with any leftover whisky from that cult distillery. I guess, waiting for new production to hit the market in the…
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The Whisky Odyssey Fèis Ìle 2024 SpecialLagavulin Day: tasting notes of some legends Fèis Ìle starts today. It is the Islay Festival of Malt and Music and is considered one of the most beautiful and enchanting whisky festivals on this blue planet. I cherish the memory of a few memorable visits to the peat-infused island…
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Return to form with Lagavulin Special Releases 2024? Lagavulin is probably the best single malt whisky in the world, but a nightmare to put some marketing on. The reason for that is that Lagavulin works best if you do not tinker with it too much. Just fill a decent refill cask of this or that,…
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Perfectly balanced Laphroaig Cask Strength batch 17 There are not a lot of age stated Laphroaig expressions left in the core range of the famous Islay distillery, but the yearly cask strength edition is still maintaining its 10 years old label. We try to monitor it every so many years, and it hardly ever disappoints.…
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Longrow Red – the final goodbye to the series When we participated in the Springbank Society European Tour a few months ago, we learned of the pending doom for the Longrow Red series. In short: it is cancelled. No need to cry over the fact that Longrow does not get a lot of exposure from the Springbank…
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Tasting notes for a 1997 Lagavulin Jazz single cask Lagavulin has been releasing special bottles for the Islay Jazz Festival for many years now, the first one appearing in 2011. On the menu today, we have the second ever Jazz Festival release. These bottlings were always highly sought after, since they were so much harder…
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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…