Categorie: Long Pour Session
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Bowmore on bourbon: guarantee for success? Bowmore has been off the grid for a few years when it comes to independent expressions, but I notice a change. Of course, the more exclusive and therefore less affordable expressions were always there, but at entry level we missed out. For today’s session, we put some youngsters on…
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Cardhu Rare Malts Selection: a rare expression indeed! In our periodical series in which we highlight expressions in the Rare Malts Selection, we arrive at a Speyside we do not often see outside the trodden path. Indeed, Cardhu single malt is a very popular whisky and appears mostly in these lovely square dumpy bottles. In…
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Tasting a Lost Distillery: Imperial single malt whisky The Imperial Distillery does not exactly have a romantic history. Unimaginably, it was already opened in 1897, but it was not often operational until it was finally demolished in 2013 and replaced by the state of the art Dalmunach Distillery. Wikipedia refers to the years Imperial was…
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Nc’nean Tsunami hits the shore of Long Pour Amour! We arrive at the final stop of our island hopping week, and today we land on the Morvern Peninsula. Here we find one of the most eco-friendly distilleries in the world, according to all the banter around their brand anyway. We are talking about Nc’nean. That…
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Three independently bottled Linkwood single malt Linkwood was always a readily available single malt whisky, and I have the impression it has become less so, but still considerably. The distillery is one of the bigger suppliers of a key malt ingredient to famous blends, so lots and lots of casks can fall off the wagon…
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Travelling to Italy, France and … Taiwan! Europe is on the brink of summer holiday and so we gathered some exotic world whisky samples to have some liquid fun, before we shift to a lower gear with this blog as well. During a four week break, we will publish some summer blogs about this or…
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Glendronach makes hand-filled great again! Is Glendronach still the uncontested sherry monarch of Scotland? This highland distillery that is actually pretty close to the borders of what one would define as Speyside, quietly took over the reign from The Macallan in the early years of this century. The once nicknamed Rolls Royce of whisky had…
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The Dalmore: whisky steeped in heritage Yes, finally, the first Dalmore expressions on this whisky blog! If you follow whisky like I do, chances are that you are also a member of the Facebook group called Whisky Memes. Dalmore (together with Jura) is one of those brands that people like to represent as the absolute…
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Coming to America via Canada and Iowa Every so often we try to visit the vast land across the big pond to see what they are doing over there when it comes to whisk(e)y. After starting up with an American whiskey, we will move on to Canada. First stop is Iowa, where we encounter an…
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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…