Categorie: Tasting Ledger
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Sherried Longrow 19 years for Bottling Hall Dinner The Bottling Hall Dinner at Springbank is legendary for the fact that it produces a special single cask for attendees. Well, the name Bottling Hall was special this year, previous iterations came from the Malt Barn dinners. We tasted a tremendous one last year, which was a…
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We catch another wave of Bowmore releases Bowmore is undoubtedly the most talked about single malt whisky coming from Scotland this year, and that is all thanks to the big wave of releases hitting the shores of the thirsty masses. And it is not like it is only one parcel of a certain vintage (even…
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Fettercairn in tropical spheres battling it out Fettercairn and its sister distilleries Jura, Dalmore and Tamnavulin are all enjoying a good day in the sun for quite a few years already. All these brands have shown healthy growth in sales. Who would have thought this about ugly ducklings like Tamnavulin and Fettercairn? Now, these brands…
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Ardnamurchan Whiskybase, new make and sherry! Whiskybase released a single cask bottling especially for their members/shop. We need little reason to dedicate a blog to one of the more consistent and high-quality new wave distilleries in Scotland. As regular readers know, we recently launched a new concept on Long Pour Amour called the New Make…
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Lochindaal and Old Skool Bruichladdich variants Ever since the Dutch whisky festival in Leiden, I have debates with whisky friends about all these variations that are made at the Bruichladdich Distillery on Islay. This is because Whiskysite, the organiser of the festival in his hometown, bottled a Bruichladdich Rhinns. What I hear about this variant,…
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LPA Vintage Week: a very special Glenlivet 1980 We tasted a whisky distilled in the 1960s and then a whisky from the 1970s. On we go to the next decade, and we do that with a single cask filled at the Glenlivet Distillery, and this was done in the year 1980. Now this is a…
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LPA Vintage Week: today (soapy) Edradour 1976 If there is one single malt whisky that I am always reluctant to put in the glass, it is Edradour. The output from this distillery has such a distinctive signature, that you either love it or hate it. In more recent years, and especially during the pandemic lockdown,…
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LPA Vintage Week: today Tomatin 1964 Welcome back! I hope you had a nice holiday! We will pick up the normal routine this week by filling up the Tasting Ledger with notes about new, old and everything in between whisky. Every Saturday, we try to do a longer entry, which is called the Long Pour…
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Tasting The Feering, honouring The Cabrach Today’s tasting notes accompany the entry in Tom’s Dram Diary about my visit to The Cabrach Distillery. Under the guidance of Alan Winchester, in total three blended malts will be released using single casks from the distilleries surrounding The Cabrach. The three releases are bound together by the common…
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The WhiskyNerds return with a 2003 Ben Nevis The WhiskyNerds are back and have filled shelf space at Dutch retailers with a new Ben Nevis from a lesser seen vintage. As I travel yearly with these guys, I had the great pleasure of following the progression of this cask over a couple of years. This…