Categorie: Tasting Ledger
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Happy birthday to me, celebrated with old classics! Welcome to my birthday blog! As I blow out 45 candles today, it is my pleasure to treat you on something special. You see, maybe I am a weird one when it comes to whisky, but more than anything else, I always loved the continuity of standard…
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Grandpa and grandson Johnnie Walker compared! It is that weird time of the year where you do not really know what to do with yourself. Your belly is probably exploding from the food intake during Christmas, and you decide to save some power for all the treats and Champagne that will inevitably come for New…
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December belongs to sherried whisky, with Balvenie Can you think of two distilleries further removed from each other than Balvenie and Lagavulin? Thinking of the soft and honeyed Speysider from Dufftown, it might be hard to consider that there is shared DNA with the Islay royalty that is Lagavulin, with its powerful peat and lemon…
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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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Glenfiddich with Christmas, IPA, snow and a fast car The time of Christmas and snow has always played an integral role in the history of the Glenfiddich Distillery in Dufftown. One of the most destructive snowstorms to hit the region, raged over the valley on Christmas Day 1886. William Grant and his large family of…
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Coastal malt whiskies from the west of Scotland The rugged west coast of Scotland is home to some amazing distilleries. We collected a few samples from Islay, Mull and Ardnamurchan, and we also put in the very new Oban 12 years old in the Special Releases 2025. Let’s dive straight in! Oban 12 years old,…
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Laphroaig 12 years old: the future of this classic Islay? Laphroaig is one of the biggest – if not THE biggest Islay single malt whisky in terms of sales and legend. As one of the three from the Kildalton coast being around for well over 200 years, there was a lot of time to build…
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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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Glen Ord 17 years old Special Releases 2025 with mezcal A few weeks ago, I visited the Art of Drinks in Amsterdam, where one of the highlights was an older release of the Singleton of Glen Ord at 14 years old. That expression was influenced by Pyrenean and Spanish oak ends (yes, indeed) and I…
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Big Peat comes knocking on your door with fat PX Big Peat is a very popular blended malt in the regional series done by Douglas Laing. Normally, I am not the biggest fan of blended malt and the stories that are needed to create the experience, but somehow these series work very well. Most importantly,…