Categorie: Tasting Ledger
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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…
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Tasting new Springbank at 8 and 15 years old (2026) The last Campbeltown Wednesday before our summer break will feature Springbank. After an eventful festival week in May, things return to normal at J&A Mitchell. The team over at Cadenhead’s will probably be preparing for the Courtyard event, which is becoming a fixture as well…
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The Duchess releases two excellent sherried malts The Duchess has sent us two samples of distilleries that have fallen out of view with independent bottlers. Well, actually, whisky from the Dalmore Distillery you almost never see in the hands of an independent, so there you go. The Duchess offers something truly unique. The other sample…
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An Aberlour bored to pieces by a sherry cask Independently bottled Aberlour used to be a rare thing, but leave it to the wizard at Signatory to uncover something in the vast maturing stocks in those warehouses near the Edradour Distillery. This is where Signatory built their headquarters over twenty years ago. I have already…
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Brand new Laphroaig 15 versus Laphroaig 18 For our 450th blog on Long Pour Amour, we are going to compare two Laphroaig single malts with respectable age statements. One is brand new, the other bottled a while longer ago. I am very happy to fill the glasses today, because it seems to me Laphroaig is…
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Teeling Distillery Exclusive on Virgin Oak cask Having visited Teeling Distillery on my birthday a few years ago will be a core memory for a lifetime. I enjoyed seeing the whole operation, even though it was silent season at that moment. I did bottle my own Distillery Exclusive. Recently, I got my hands on a…
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The Cairn – First Peek single malt tasting notes Grantown-on-Spey is one of the bigger towns on Speyside, and can be regarded as the west gate to the region and the Malt Whisky Trail. All it was lacking was a proper distillery of its own. Closest is probably the Balmenach Distillery, and next up Tormore,…
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New core range Tormore offers the fruitbasket If there ever were people who’s opinion and take on Scotch whisky I trust blindly, it must be Sukhinder and Rajbir Singh. When the news came out that they purchased the Tormore Distillery in 2022, it brought excitement in the air. With their Elixir Distillers, they are now…
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Core range changes: Tasting Tomatin Triple Cask Those who follow me longer than today, know that I am a devoted fan of the Tomatin Distillery. Recently, I noticed a change in the wind, when they refreshed their core range. It seems that the lower end of the range gets a bigger size label that covers…
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Wolfburn celebrates 70 years of Dounreay With just 135.000 litres per annum, Wolfburn is truly one of the smaller distilleries in Scotland, but in a region that is not known for whisky distillation, it is a lot. In Thurso in the Northern Highlands, Wolfburn has been going strong since the stills got active in 2013.…