Categorie: L
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Young Campbeltowners including Longrow 100 proof, Hazelburn 8 and Springbank Local Barley There have been some spectacular releases by Springbank and Glengyle Distilleries in 2025, so we have to see where we all put them in the next few weeks or months. Might this be the reason that King Charles III dropped by in our…
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Some rarities from The Glenlivet and Linn House An independent retailer is a rare sight in the Dutch liquor store landscape. Most of them have attached their name to one of the big retail chains. Both ways have their pros and cons, I am sure. My local store is one of those independents, which gives…
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Hebridean Moon rising with Ledaig Yes, yes, I know, we did a few Ledaig samples just under two months ago, but there is a new expression out that sparked my curiosity. And everybody likes Ledaig! So here we go. We will start with a single cask expression bottled by Archives which matured in a sherry…
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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…