Categorie: Long Pour Session
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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…
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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…