Categorie: 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…
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Two Bladnoch from very different eras Bladnoch is this wonderfully awkward distillery in the deep south of Scotland, located in a quaint little settlement called Wigtown. Still, I managed to stay there for a night that I will not quickly forget. The year was 2009 and even though most of us had already visited Scotland…
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Travelling through the decades with Balblair Balblair is another distillery that had not featured on this blog, but I reckon we have corrected that with the three giants we taste today. The distillery always seems to fly under the radar a little, perhaps in the shadow on next door neighbour Glenmorangie. It is, however, deserving…
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Blended Scotch whisky galore with Tomatin, Cadenhead, Cluny and Scottish Leader For my two hundredth tasting note blog, I decided to go back to the mother of all creation in the world of whisky, which is of course the category Blended Scotch. You know all the big brands, like Johnnie Walker, Ballentine’s, Chivas Regal, Dewar’s…
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Two ancient Dalwhinnie that underline classic quality Dalwhinnie has been and still is one of the Classic Malts to represent the different whisky regions of Scotland, as once invented by their owner, the current day Diageo. Dalwhinnie represents the Highland style in this series, that is further made up of Lagavulin (Islay), Glenkinchie (Lowland), Oban…
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Clynelish from the legendary 1970s… rare malt indeed! In cooperation with expert whisky retailer Best of Wines, I am publishing blogs about 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 interest in single malt whisky rose to its…
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Enjoying the tropical fruit of an old Glenugie In my early days of this whisky hobby, everywhere I went a little black book would accompany me for taking notes about the whiskies I would taste. In one of these books, I found tasting notes for a tasting that was done at Lindores Whisky Fest in…
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Glenburgie 50 years apart: 1961 versus 2011 There are 25 whisky distilleries in Scotland that have “Glen” in their name. From the most well-known ones like The Glenlivet, Glenfiddich, Glen Grant and Glenfarclas to the really obscure ones like … well, perhaps Glenburgie? This mass producer of single malt whisky makes a little over 5…