Categorie: Tasting Ledger
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Craft Spirits hits the bullseye with a Linkwood BBR As I am now well underway in my second year of full blown blogging about whisky, I can make some observations of the modern-day whisky industry. One of these is that producers and bottlers alike love their PX-casks. That is of course very understandable. PX is…
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Old Ballantruan: peated Tomintoul might yet surprise! What do we think of peated whisky made at places that are not normally known for peated whisky? For me, I sometimes like the variation. I think Benromach makes a tremendous peated malt, but some sherry matured expressions made quite the conversation a few years ago. I even…
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The yearly SR rant and two Lagavulin 12 years old Some unconfirmed chatter I picked up in the community states that the yearly Special Releases done by Diageo are coming to an end. If that were the case, I would be very sad, but on the other hand it would be best to come up…
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The talk of the (Campbel)town: Kilkerran 16 years old Talk about the whisky of 2025 that creates a lot of chatter, and this Kilkerran 16 years old that we taste today must be on the list. Is it only because of the deep, dark colour of the liquid, certainly compared to earlier releases? Or is…
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Glendullan certainly not the “Glen Dull One” Glendullan, also nicknamed “Glen Dull One“, is one of the many stills in Dufftown and with quite a hefty production: 5 million liters per year. Most of it went to blends, I’m sure, but then came along the introduction of The Singleton malts. The little settlement of Dufftown…
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Korukabegura new make: Precision, Purity, Provenance You Only Live Twice is my favourite James Bond novel, penned by spiritual father Ian Fleming. In one of the early chapters, Tiger Tanaka talks to 007 about Japanese whisky. He drinks Suntory. “Went up to the distillery some while ago and met one of the family. Told me…
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Nostalgic Macallan bottled in batch by Signatory The releasing of single malt whisky without disclosing the provenance of the stills, yeah, it has become standard practice by now. It annoys me to no end, but when bottlers start giving hints about what you are actually buying, my heart is softened. Like today’s specimen. Signatory has…
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Royal Brackla forever linked to blended Scotch? You can always count on Archives to deliver very pure and distillate driven single malt whisky. Like the sample we have on the table today, from the Royal Brackla Distillery. With a capacity of 4,3 million litres per annum, the site in Cawdor (Nairn) is an important element…
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Whisky overboard! Lindores drowning in firkin casks Sometimes I write an introduction first, sometimes I taste a whisky first and return later to write this little intro. For this blog, it was the latter, and that is a good thing. Because I am drinking a Lindores today, but it has no point to say anything…
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New core range Glen Scotia 12 years old (2025) Glen Scotia goes from strength to strength and since we are quietly waiting for other distilleries to open in the beautiful wee toon that is Campbeltown, we enjoy the whiskies we can drink from there during our monthly Campbeltown Wednesday. On the bottom of our sample…