Ardnamurchan Whiskybase, new make and sherry! Whiskybase released a single cask bottling especially for their members/shop. We need little reason to dedicate a blog to one of the more consistent and high-quality new wave distilleries in Scotland. As regular readers know, we recently launched a new concept on Long Pour Amour called the New Make…
The Dunphail Distillery: the anti-consistency malt whisky Dunphail is the name of a new Speyside distillery just south of Forres. Here, nobody is reinventing the wheel – quite the opposite, in fact. It is a return to the traditional basics. Just let the ingredients do their thing, and it will turn out fine, even if…
New Make Spirit of Burnobennie judged in the New Make Index A few weeks ago I stood in front of a chalkboard in a business unit outside Banchory, watching a distiller map out flavour against alcohol strength, cut by cut, degree by degree. Sam Ritchie of the Burnobennie Distillery calls it fragmented distilling. I’ve been…