Categorie: Tasting Ledger
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Checking on immaculate Isle of Raasay malt It has been a while since I tasted anything from the Isle of Raasay. I owned their very first release and downed quite a few glasses from that, back in the day. But we have moved on, the year is 2026, and today we find two samples on…
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The English Whisky at 8 years old by Cadenhead’s The landscape for English single malt whisky has drastically changed over the past two decades, with numerous initiatives coming up. We see the brands more often, and some of them have made quite a name for themselves, like Cotswolds, Finlay Bay and of course Bimber in…
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Mystery Malt Glen Grant: elegant at 26 years of age The Thompson Brothers are rapidly becoming everybody’s favourite independent bottler, and a batch of releases most of us look forward to are the Mystery Malt bottles. You get a black bottle with a big white question mark on it, and then you just have to…
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One more red nightmare – Caol Ila on Australian wine Any lovers of the classic progressive rock band King Crimson here? When I poured the sample of today in my glass, I could not help but think about a song by them: “One More Red Nightmare”. Kind people keep on giving me samples of whisky…
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Virgin oak on a malt from Glasgow Distillery The Thompson Brothers are rapidly becoming everybody’s favourite independent bottler, and a batch of releases most of us look forward to are the Mystery Malt bottles. You get a black bottle with a big white question mark on it, and then you just have to unwrap the…
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Popular Deanston on the tasting table today Deanston Distillery is certainly a popular single malt whisky, if the “Whiskybase Wrapped” is anything to go on. The brand is second only to Springbank as the top rated distillery of 2025, with an average score of 87,87 for all their releases over that year. The top names…
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Sakurao Japanese malt debuts on LPA with sauternes My first taste of Sakurao single malt Japanese whisky was at the Dutch Art of Drinks event in Amsterdam, a few months ago already. Importer Craft Spirits had a few bottles open at their stand and I think I took a sip of one or two expressions.…
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Glen Garioch single malt from the early 1990s Glen Garioch is perhaps the least known of the three Morrison Bowmore owned distilleries, that also includes the Bowmore Distillery on Islay and the recently revamped Glaswegian facility of Auchentoshan. All of them are now actually part of Beam Suntory, making it one big family with the…
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Octomore 14.2 – all peat and a dash of Amarone wine What is Octomore other than the wet dream of every Islay peat lover? Well, to be honest, I always saw it as an overprized gimmick, to start the year rather bluntly. It absolutely has it share of followers, this extremely peated whisky made at…
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Springbank Society bottling borrows the soul of Madeira Welcome to a new Campbeltown Wednesday – except we do it on a Friday because of the New Year. Happy 2026 everyone! Our monthly blog highlighting the beautiful whisky that comes from the Wee Toon on the Mull of Kintyre is back. As I write this, the…