Categorie: Tasting Ledger
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Scapa on the rise with a new core range Scapa is the other distillery on Orkney and that can be a blessing and a curse. If you happen to be a whisky enthusiast, you know where the Orkney Islands are located, because of that other distillery. The famous one. It also means that Scapa will…
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A young trio of Tomatin to kick off 2025 Welcome to 2025. I hope you all had a fantastic New Year’s celebration. I spent a few nice days in Scotland, mainly in Edinburgh, where I blew out 44 candles. Making blogs about whisky in a time you are celebrating Christmas and New Year’s Eve with…
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The day when blogger Thijs choose Thy whisky There is a Dutch guy called Thijs that likes whisky that is made at the Danish Thy. That seems like a match made in heaven! Thijs is, of course, the blogger we all know and love for his insights on Words of Whisky. And Thy Distillery we…
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A Merry Christmas with four Islay Giants Let me start this special blog with wishing all my readers a Merry Christmas! Today, we slow down and take a moment to reflect on the year that lies behind us. Happy times and sadness have close ties to each other. Today, I attended a funeral for my…
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Glenfarclas for the Dark Days of December Glenfarclas is the ultimate December month whisky, is it not? They have been releasing an incredible amount of fantastic sherried single malt over the decades. Sherry casks do create a flavour that is associated with all the savoury things we devour during the holidays. Famous are the Glenfarclas…
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Ardnahoe Society 2024 release already impressive Exclusive bottlings for members of a (most times) free admittance (fan) club of a distillery. There are many examples of companies doing it like this. Most well-known are probably the Springbank Society and the Ardbeg Committee. New Islay distillery Ardnahoe joined too with the quite straightforward name “Ardnahoe Society”.…
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Tamdhu 18 years old: a new sherried whisky monarch When Ian Macleod’s brand ambassador Gordon Dundas visited the Netherlands a few years ago, he hosted a tasting in the cellar of the well-known retailer The Old Pipe in St. Oedenrode. He presented a range of Tamdhu whisky, with in their midst the newest release: the…
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The next Wolfburn 10 years old on our radar It was not that long ago that the Wolfburn Distillery released their first 10 years old, which must be a milestone for any new distillery, to reach the double digits in aged whisky. I mean, recently we tasted the first Ardnamurchan 10 years old (find the…
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Two heavily sherried Filliers from Belgium The Belgium whisky landscape is no less impressive than that of the surrounding neighbours France, Germany and The Netherlands. Filliers is a decades old distillery spanning many generations of craftspeople. Starting out with Genever, and pioneering the then-unknown product (in Belgium) gin, it was the cousins Jan and Bernard…
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Highland Park 2013 with strong vanilla signature Stop the presses! We got breaking news here! A Highland Park single malt whisky bottled under its own name. Yes, that is cause for celebration. In recent years we have been spoiled with very good to excellent “Secret Orkney” bottlings that left no mystery around its origins. But…