Categorie: Tasting Ledger
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While we wait for resurrection: a Waterford trio The news hit many of us hard at the end of 2024, when it was announced that Waterford Distillery in Ireland had gone belly-up. Perhaps the most Scottish of all Irish distilleries, I know Waterford had a lot of fans who normally not venture into what the…
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A successful Kilkerran 8 years old bourbon matured The Campbeltown Malts Festival is well underway, but this is also our monthly regular Campbeltown Wednesday and we taste a new expression. The Kilkerran 8 years old bottlings are making quite some waves among enthusiasts. I have started buying the yearly expressions myself too, as they are…
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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…