Categorie: Long Pour Session
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Tamdhu 21 years old compared with NAS editions Tamdhu has gained a lot of loyal followers since Ian Macleod Distillers took over the distillery from The Edrington Group in 2011. Before, it was a workhorse distillery producing malt for the blends from the Edrington stable, most famously The Famous Grouse. With other big names in…
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A trio of Williamson distilled at Laphroaig Williamson is the name of the former distillery manager Bessie Williamson, who lead Laphroaig to great heights as a respected Islay single malt. Today we have three samples on the table that are named thus, even though you can see in the marketplace that some independent bottlers are…
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New beginnings for the Speyside Distillery The Speyside Distillery in Kingussie is now officially a lost distillery. In December we could follow the dismantling of the site on Instagram. Collectors be aware! This will be your new Port Ellen! Or not quite, as the quality of the whisky releases by the owners has always been…
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Always away from the spotlights: 200 year old Ben Nevis Ben Nevis always was a single malt whisky that was readily available for independent bottlers. If you are such an entrepreneur and you did not bottle a Ben Nevis 1996, why are you even in the business? Joking of course, but it is save to…
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Annandale Extravaganza with four expressions In the summer, we dedicated a special entry of Tom’s Dram Diary to Annandale. I visited the lowland located operation just weeks before distilling started, way back in 2014. Read all about it here. We also tasted a few expressions that left us lukewarm at best. In our return to…
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Glenburgie from excellent oloroso sherry butts Christmas is some time behind us, but to commemorate the fun of the holidays, and the whisky I bought then, today this blog. My local retailer always sends me a text when he gets a new batch of this or that whisky, also including the Signatory releases. The 100…
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Elegant Glenlossie at a respectable age Maltbarn released a very special Glenlossie last year (in 2025 that is) at a very respectable age. A sample of this landed in my lap and I thought it would be a nice one to kick off the first proper Long Pour Session of 2026. It also got me…
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Cleaning out the Long Pour Amour sample cabinet! To make a fresh start in 2026, we use our 350th blog to clean out our cabinet and our digital shelf. Today we present at random the samples that just kept falling outside the schedule of release, because something more urgent or new came along. We certainly…
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Brora: the most brilliant mistake in whisky history Chances are, you are exhausted by the time you get to read this. Christmas Eve is upon us, we gathered a mountain of groceries, the tree is lit and the fireplace is stocked. Time to kick back with a good dram. For this special night of the…
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The return of a classic Ardbeg and some experiments Today, we move to the south shore of Islay to taste samples from the classic Ardbeg distillery. Since that cult whisky was so passionately revived in the late 1990s, after being acquired by Glenmorangie, it has gone from strength to strength. Recently, when looking for something…