Categorie: Tasting Ledger
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Make Longrow Great Again! Some musings and tastings The Campbeltown Malts Festival has begun and I know this will delight many of my whisky drinking friends. In fact, I know quite a few who slept with the complete itinerary of the festival under their pillow ever since it came out late January. More power to…
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Raise your hand for Wagging Finger whisky! Wagging Finger is a small operation in the east of The Netherlands, in the beautiful old city of Deventer. The (micro) distillery started some ten years ago, and at that point I was still active as writer for the Dutch club whisky magazine De Kiln. Together with the…
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Dalmunach from octave casks: do we need that? Today is not so much about Dalmunach, which is for little under a decade now the workhorse distillery of Chivas/Pernod Ricard. The stamp on the tasting note of today is created by independent bottler Duncan Taylor. They have released no less than 64 expressions of Dalmunach that…
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A crazy Ledaig (and/or Tobermory?) bonanza There are enough distilleries in Scotland that produce unpeated and peated batches of whisky. At some places, this feels totally natural. On the Isle of Mull, such a practise is in use at the Tobermory Distillery. Their unpeated production is presented under the name of the distillery, and the…
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Embracing the soapy whisky in Blended Scotch Living Souls is a new bottler from Glasgow that has launched some interesting new products on the market. In a heavily saturated whisky spectrum, the odd ones stand out, and the 40 year old Blended Scotch by Living Souls that landed on my desk last month, could well…
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Highland Park 12 years old: return to normalcy? When famous whisky writer Michael Jackson used the words “the greatest all-rounder in the world of whisky”, or words to that effect, I believe he describe specifically the Highland Park 18 years old. And no one would dare correct him, because it was very true in those…
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An introduction to Milk & Honey Distillery Something more exotic today, as we travel via the glass to Tel Aviv where we find the Milk & Honey Distillery, shortened to M&H. The production site is one of the latest projects Dr. Jim Swan was involved in, before his passing in 2017. With such a big…
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Speyside’s future: a trio of Ballindalloch single malt The Spirit of Speyside Festival comes to an end today, and that deserves a fully packed farewell session with a trio of Ballindalloch single malt whisky. Even though the 21st century is marked by whisky distilleries popping up like mushrooms, for such a big whisky producing region…
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Pleased to get better acquainted with Auchroisk Speyside is a region where you can stumble upon a distillery at every corner and crossroad. Here you will find some of the most legendary names in the whisky world. The other side is that the region is also home to quite some workhorses, or should I say:…
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Tomintoul 18 years old: daily dram from the Livet valley In this Spirit of Speyside Festival week I go back to my own visit to that festival, in 2019, where we also called on the Tomintoul Distillery. Founded in 1965, this was one of the newer distilleries in Scotland before the whisky boom of this…