Categorie: Tasting Ledger
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Big Peat comes knocking on your door with fat PX Big Peat is a very popular blended malt in the regional series done by Douglas Laing. Normally, I am not the biggest fan of blended malt and the stories that are needed to create the experience, but somehow these series work very well. Most importantly,…
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Benromach 2014 from identical single sherry casks It has been a while since we tasted a few Benromach, not since February of this year. We found some samples in the drawer that were quite young and both matured on sherry casks. We are going to try them here, head to head, as they are both…
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New (local barley) high quality releases from Springbank Springbank spoils us with two Local Barley releases in one calendar year. Well, technically, the previous expression was bottled in December 2024, but that hit the shelves after new year. Anyway, the previous release was an 8 years old made from bere barley, and the follow up…
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Welcome to December with sherried Dailuaine Welcome to December! The month of togetherness, creeping close to the fire, snow outside and a glass of whisky in your hand inside. We take our single malt with a bit more spice in these times, while we countdown to Christmas. So, to kick off this month of joy,…
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Smooth sailing with Glenglassaugh on a PX-cask It has been a long while since I tasted Glenglassaugh. The whisky from the North Sea coast has not even featured on this blog yet, until today. The distillery slipped under my radar ever since my visit to the site in 2013, en 2011 before that. It was…
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Rebelling against SWA with Rye: Teaninich 8 years old It is so weird to read the name Teaninich on a label, and then notice that it is a single grain Scotch whisky. That might well confuse consumers, but on the other hand, how well-known is Teaninich, even as a single malt? If you ask me,…
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A return to form with The Macallan 110 proof Are we at the brink of a return to normalcy in the whisky landscape? More and more producers put the age statement back on their boxes and bottles, and I see prices return to a more normal level here and there too (but not everywhere, yet).…
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Glendronach gives us the Master’s Anthology Master Blender Rachel Berrie is one of the big names in the whisky industry, so when she creates, we humble whisky lovers take note. The Master’s Anthology is quite a hefty name for a series of Glendronach bottlings that explores sherry maturation. According to an article I read in…
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Talisker 14 years old Special Releases 2025 Talisker again featured in the Special Releases done by Diageo in 2025, but where we got an 8 years old last year, the expression of this year is of quite a nice age. The treatment of the cask remained the same, and equally puzzling. I am quite curious…
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Brand new Ardnamurchan releases (with 10 years old) The Headland of the Great Seas is a perfect place to distil and mature whisky, according to the distillery that was named after exactly this place. The journey started in 2014. Ardnamurchan is now ending the year 2025 with a bang, releasing the first regular 10 years…