Categorie: R
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Baby Ardbeg (Red Bag): a master stroke by Dramfool Sometimes, one has to walk around the edges of the extreme in the wonderful whisky world, and for today I think I have found such an extreme. Independent bottler Dramfool offers us very tasty and indeed thought-provoking bottlings. Two years ago, on the way to the…
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Royal Lochnagar: great introduction to Highland malt Royal Lochnagar is a romantic whisky. In my early days of exploring what single malts were out there, the name struck me, and seeing the bottle for the first time in the livery of the day, it stood out. Different from other Diageo single malts, it was not…
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Tasting notes for the second ever Roseisle release Let me start by saying this was supposed to be a head-to-head tasting between the only two Roseisle releases available in the world. But it turns out that my bottle of Roseisle 12 years old that was released in 2023 went into the bin, without sampling at…
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Election Day in America: Remus bourbon in the glass Today is the big day that the whole of America and to a certain extent the whole world is watching forward to every four years. Election Day in the United States of America. We could not let the moment pass without drinking something as American as…
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The Battle of the Thirty Year Old Whiskies We wanted to leave you with a bang, since now we go on a three week holiday. We will return early in September, give our liver some rest, and make plans for the new sprint towards the end of the year with more remarkable whisky on the…
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Rosebank Reawakened: 30 year old scar filled with gold The decline of Rosebank announced itself first in Japan. The Lowland Single Malt Whisky was in high demand in the country of the rising sun, and all of a sudden stocks started to dwindle. A first sign of things being wrong, before the word got out.…
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Rare lowland single malts: Inverleven and Rosebank Well, at least one of them is rare. With the reopening of Rosebank Distillery in Falkirk it is almost as if the resurrection of the lowlands as a whisky region to be reckoned with has come full circle. It will still be some years until we can buy Rosebank again…
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3 minute read The Resurrection of Rosebank starts spirited In recent years we have seen quite a few distilleries return to an active status. Most famously among them are obviously Rosebank, Port Ellen and Brora. A golden trio among whisky enthusiasts, not in the least because of their high-quality output. To me, Rosebank has always…