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Bizarre Loch Lomond whiskies created with witchcraft Loch Lomond was not the stand of a distillery I would immediately run to when visiting a festival or something like that. The Scotch whisky industry has some ugly ducklings amongst them, and that is perfectly fine, since we can not all be stars like Talisker, Glenfiddich or…
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A trio of Ardnahoe, Bowmore and Laphroaig We have three tasting notes for you today, while we continue to travel past the Islay distilleries that each have their own day during the Feis Ile festival, that is in full swung as we speak. New to the fold is of course Ardnahoe, that released a special…
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Exotic Lagavulin Mezcal to kick-off the Feis Ile week Today is the kick-off to the most romantic, most heralded Whisky Festival of the world. The Festival of Malt and Music, better known as Feis Ile. It has been a while since I actually went to the festival (in 2016), and visiting the island itself has…
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Make Longrow Great Again! Some musings and tastings The Campbeltown Malts Festival has begun and I know this will delight many of my whisky drinking friends. In fact, I know quite a few who slept with the complete itinerary of the festival under their pillow ever since it came out late January. More power to…
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A crazy Ledaig (and/or Tobermory?) bonanza There are enough distilleries in Scotland that produce unpeated and peated batches of whisky. At some places, this feels totally natural. On the Isle of Mull, such a practise is in use at the Tobermory Distillery. Their unpeated production is presented under the name of the distillery, and the…
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Embracing the soapy whisky in Blended Scotch Living Souls is a new bottler from Glasgow that has launched some interesting new products on the market. In a heavily saturated whisky spectrum, the odd ones stand out, and the 40 year old Blended Scotch by Living Souls that landed on my desk last month, could well…
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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…