Categorie: Long Pour Session
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Spotlight on once lost distillies Coleburn and Rosebank Any reason counts to put some rare whiskies into one session, right? Well, sit back, relax, and read about the two distilleries featured today. Both were in the news recently, hence my effort to taste samples of them. Also, I had the good fortune to taste examples…
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Keep calm and carry on! Glenfarclas through the ages Glenfarclas is such a brand that does not seem to care what happens in the whisky world. It remains consistent. Distilleries popping up like mushrooms? Glenfarclas is there. Economic downturn on the horizon? Glenfarclas remains calm. This is a brand you can rely on. Weary of…
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Littlemill 1990: Scottish summer in a glass Signatory Vintage is one of the most talked about independent bottlers of the last two years or so. The tremendously affordable bottlings in their 100 proof series make waves amongst enthusiasts who were quite done with indulging ridiculous pricing for (sometimes not even) quality single malt. Signatory fluffed…
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Kininvie, always in the shadow of the siblings Kininvie was for a long time some kind of Holy Grail for me. One of the more rare single malt whisky out there, most of all because virtually all output that is produced at this humble distillery next door to Balvenie and Glenfiddich goes into blends. Not…
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A fruity journey with distillery exclusive Teeling whiskey Have you ever filled your own bottle straight from the cask? I am in the lucky position to say that I indeed did. If memory serves me well, the very first time was in the distillery visitors centre of Glenfiddich in the summer of 2006. A few…
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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…