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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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Old-bottle Cadenhead’s Tomatin 13 years old Today, we taste a Tomatin bottled by one of the oldest independent bottlers of Scotland. I picked up this bottle during my visit to Campbeltown in January 2026, where we also heard a news fact. The Cadenhead bottlings will soon change appearance, as a result of all the things…
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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…
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Talisker Port Ruighe offers a nice variation The Glasgow Whisky Club gathers every now and then in the Bon Accord pub, and in January 2026 me and some friends were invited to join in. One of the members contributed a bottle, that he introduced with a hilarious roasting of Talisker. Only to go on to…
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Tamdhu 21 years old compared with NAS editions Tamdhu has gained a lot of loyal followers since Ian Macleod Distillers took over the distillery from The Edrington Group in 2011. Before, it was a workhorse distillery producing malt for the blends from the Edrington stable, most famously The Famous Grouse. With other big names in…
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Celebrating the new Tomatin Year of the Horse We are on the threshold of the Year of the Horse. This year of the Fire Horse starts tomorrow, on 17 February, and runs to 5 February 2027. The Horse is one of the twelve Chinese zodiac signs and this one is number seven. Looking at the…
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Unpolished diamonds from the Tomatin Distillery Tomatin is and remains one of my favourite brands. One always stays loyal to their first proper whisky experience, I guess. For me, this is how it works anyway. I amassed a nice stack of samples and some pours from my own bottles, to speed up this Christmas fever…
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Single malt samples from China and Japan Is it just a matter of time before China becomes a player on the world stage of (single malt) whisky, or has that time already arrived? A few weeks ago, we read the news that Distillery Manager Iain McAllister has left Glen Scotia Distillery to aide in the…
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Rebelling against SWA with Rye: Teaninich 8 years old It is so weird to read the name Teaninich on a label, and then notice that it is a single grain Scotch whisky. That might well confuse consumers, but on the other hand, how well-known is Teaninich, even as a single malt? If you ask me,…
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Talisker 14 years old Special Releases 2025 Talisker again featured in the Special Releases done by Diageo in 2025, but where we got an 8 years old last year, the expression of this year is of quite a nice age. The treatment of the cask remained the same, and equally puzzling. I am quite curious…