Categorie: Long Pour Session
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Exploring independent releases of Blair Athol One never forgets his first time! Blair Athol was the very first distillery I visited, in October 2005. The experience was decent enough, with a basic but sufficient (Diageo style) tour of the distillery, and going home with the beautiful Flora & Fauna expression in the bag. For the…
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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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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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Raise your hand for Wagging Finger whisky! Wagging Finger is a small operation in the east of The Netherlands, in the beautiful old city of Deventer. The (micro) distillery started some ten years ago, and at that point I was still active as writer for the Dutch club whisky magazine De Kiln. Together with the…
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An Old Pulteney extravaganza through the decades Quite a few of my whisky friends adore the output of the Pulteney Distillery in Wick. I never really caught the bug, but always enjoyed a good glass of the northern Scottish site when it was presented to me. On a big tour through Scotland in 2007, we…
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Turn of the century Ben Nevis: dial up the funkiness! It is a weird thing: I reference Ben Nevis quite a lot when I write tasting notes about (west) coastal single malt whisky, like Ardnamurchan, but somehow I never got round to dedicating an entire solitary blog to this legendary whisky distillery. And the word…
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Speyside Giants from 1970, 1971, 1972 and 1973 Welcome to the Speyside Giants Long Pour Session. We have arrived in the middle of the Spirit of Speyside Festival Week, and even though we are only there in our minds, it does not mean we cannot celebrate from afar. The idea for this Long Pour Session…
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Three Ardbeg expressions with roots in the 1990s Before we go on Easther holiday for a week with this blog, we leave you with some interesting releases from the Ardbeg Distillery. You know, when you visit Islay, the place to visit if you want to have a good lunch is actually the Ardbeg Café. They…
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A trio of independently bottled Ardmore Ardmore is a very popular distillery among aficionados as it offers a good twist on regular Highland and more fierce Speyside single malts. This is, of course, famously caused by a light but very pronounced peating level for this gigantic distillery. The location of Ardmore is somewhat to the…
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The Rare Malts Selection Caol Ila 1978 23 years old In cooperation with expert whisky retailer Best of Wines, in the next months I will publish blogs about a few expressions in Diageo’s legendary Rare Malts Selection. This was a series devised to highlight the more obscure malts in the company’s portfolio, long before the…