Categorie: Long Pour Session
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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…
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Speyside Giants from 1970, 1971, 1972 and 1973 Welcome to the Speyside Giants Long Pour Session. We have arrived in the middle of the Spirit of Speyside Festival Week, and even though we are only there in our minds, it does not mean we cannot celebrate from afar. The idea for this 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…