Categorie: Long Pour Session
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Aberfeldy: sherry monster versus 1970s elegance Recently, I got my hands on an older sample of the Aberfeldy Distillery. Normally, I would build a blog around that, with some background, before leading up to such a sample. However, I got my hands on a very recent Aberfeldy as well, so why not combine the two…
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From Strathspey to Dalwhinnie: a long journey The story of the Dalwhinnie Distillery is strongly intertwined with that of James Buchanan, and I don’t mean the 15th President of the USA by the same name. Even though Dalwhinnie James was also born on the other side of the Atlantic, this Canadian from Scottish emigrants returned…
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Glen Elgin: a deep dive on a very rare bottle With Long Pour Amour, I aim to offer something rare every now and then. Samples that I gather from my own network or even have stashed away in my own sample library. One of the features is tasting the legendary old Rare Malts Selection bottlings.…
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The Macallan in the hands of independent bottlers The Macallan single malt whisky as a brand is doing very well, truly being one part of the big three, together with Glenfiddich and The Glenlivet. All three brands now sell more than one million cases per year. In the meantime, we have seen a regular flow…
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Talisker 10 years old – The Old Map Label Talisker is an incredible stronghold in the single malt whisky category, but to me it always seems like a whispered secret. With its outspoken volcanic character, you would expect this to be a whisky for the acquired taste, for the trained palate. But the numbers tell…
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Back to the distant past with two Glen Grant Glen Grant is an interesting single malt because it is one of those precious few whiskies of which there is a lot around from several eras. As it was marketed quite progressively early on in its existence, and because of the rise to stardom in the…
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Back to the 1990s with some rare malt whiskies We accumulated some samples of single malt whiskies that were distilled in the 1990s and decided to put them all in one blog. This decade was a weird one, not only in world history, but also in the Scotch whisky industry, with weird closure of distilleries…
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Mortlach Extravaganza with three classic bottles To some blogs I look more forward to writing than others, simply because some whiskies unearth a deep feeling of nostalgia. Today, after a very long time, I have a Mortlach 16 years old Flora & Fauna expression in the glass. I think I last tasted it in the…
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Lochlea Extravaganza: new core range and new make On my most recent trip to Scotland, I almost drove through the backyard of Lochlea Distillery, but sadly our murderous schedule did not allow for a stop. It will have to wait, assuming Lochlea has put on enough resilience to survive the current hard times that fall…
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A romantic Teaninich: peated flavours from the floor Our periodical entries about bottlings in the Rare Malts Selection become increasingly … rare, but we managed to unearth another expression! Today, we sink out teeth into a truly special distillery called Teaninich. Known to connoisseurs mostly, Teaninich is not to be overlooked, as it often offers…