Categorie: Tasting Ledger
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Three Dava Way bottles connected to Dunphail My recent visit to the Dunphail Distillery came with a tasting pack of three bottlings done by The Dava Way. These are independent releases in support of the distilling effort at Dunphail, that is actually located near to the Dava Moor and the Dava Way footpath, that also…
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Laphroaig and Williamson Islay malt side by side If there is one single malt brand that I have changed my mind on most in the past year, it must be Laphroaig. With their very decent core range releases of new 12 and 15 years old expressions, I am looking at the future with confidence. Quality…
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Blue Hanger blended malt by Berry Bros & Rudd A blast from the past is the return of Berry Bros & Rudd’s blended malt Blue Hanger. To be honest, I had kind of forgotten about the brand, so I dived into the Whiskybase. Maybe it is not weird that it disappeared behind my horizon in…
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Two Balblair head to head at 16 years old Two Balblair samples on the table today, and since both of them are more or less of the same age, we tried them together. Balblair has slipped under the radar again, so it seems, right around the time a rather unimaginative rebranding was done. They brought…
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Ailsa Bay: Keeper of the Lowland malt whisky soul Ailsa Bay is the mammoth distillery owned by the William Grant & Sons company, also known for their mega brands Glenfiddich, The Balvenie and Monkey Shoulder. Founded in 2007, the distillery is often overlooked in the categorisation of 21st century distilleries. Of course, churning out 12…
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Kilchoman Rockside: a softer side to peaty malt Who remembers the early days of Kilchoman, when it was a small distillery next to the Rockside Farm? Just two stills purring away, maltings carried out on location, and casks scattered around everywhere there was a place to fit one. Kilchoman stole the hearts of many a…
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A Ardnahoe Salute to Chairman Stewart Laing Ardnahoe keeps churning out new small batch and single cask releases, and we keep scooping them up! As I review the Chairman’s Selection today, I understand a second edition has already been released. It takes effort to keep up, you see! According to the banter around this bottling,…
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Bladnoch posing as the Lowland Fruit Basket There is so much to love about the Bladnoch Distillery in the quaint little Wigtown, Scotland’s National Book Town. I dropped by there very briefly last January, when some friends of mine had an appointment to check on some casks and samples in nearby Creetown. We arrived in…
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Glen Scotia 15 years old bottle versus cask sample We have a fun experiment today for our monthly Campbeltown Wednesday. We taste the official release of a 15 years old Glen Scotia, and compare it to a cask sample from vintage 2011 that is also 15 years old. Let’s see if we can spot some…
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Arran 30 years old bottled by Cadenhead’s As time moves on, we also see more and more mature whisky from distilleries that at one point were the new cats in the Scottish landscape. But the Lochranza Distillery on the Isle of Arran, formerly known as the Arran Distillery of course, has been distilling since 1995.…