Categorie: Tasting Ledger
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Strathmill by Signatory makes the sherry wood sing Just like the Glen Spey we tasted a few months ago, Strathmill is not really a household name for the average whisky enthusiast. You can notice it straight away when you post something about such an unknown distillery: the likes are absent and the hits on the…
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Blended Scotch with a twist by Living Souls Living Souls are one of these bottlers that do not mind mixing things up with interesting variations in the bottle. Not afraid to provide whisky enthusiasts with categories that are considered beneath the quality and stature of single malt whisky, we get something interesting to drink. The…
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The Single Oak Project: Buffalo Trace spoiled the geeks If you think the Glenfarclas Family Cask series was an impressive whisky collection, we can geek you out by explaining what the Buffalo Trace Distillery over in Kentucky did with their whiskey. They created the Single Oak Project and they call it ‘the most extensive bourbon…
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A Glenlivet single cask that takes no prisoners Welcome to my (official) 300th regular tasting note blog. By no means is this the 300th whisky we taste on Long Pour Amour, because we do like to taste more than one whisky per blog, but we keep count of our regular blogs. This means three episodes…
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Ardnamurchan, Dailuaine and Glengoyne by 12 Barrels A Dutch band of brothers named “12 Barrels” at one point bought … you guessed it … 12 casks of whisky, to be bottled over the years. Most of the bottlings are done with an own label, but some distilleries do not really go for that. The 12…
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Soul of the Highlands: Loch Lomond Distillery Today we are presenting you a Loch Lomond super-blog with a few variations from this versatile distillery in Alexandria, at a stone’s throw away from the famous lake. We know they present three core range variations these days, being the broadly composed “Loch Lomond”, the way more fruity…
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Educational session with various Aberlour We are going to pit a sherry matured Aberlour against a bottling by the uncrowned king of spirit-forward matured whisky (Archives) and their bourbon matured Aberlour. Because yes, let’s be honest, when I think of Aberlour my mind immediately wanders to sherry matured whisky. Their spirit seems to play nice…
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Tormore on the rise under new ownership A distillery I certainly hope to visit one day is the Tormore Distillery in Speyside, not too far from Grantown-on-Spey and right along the A95. Who has not stopped the car when spotting this magnificent distillery from the road, just to snap a few pictures? I know I…
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This Aberfeldy is different. Good different? Who knows! There are quite a lot of distilleries that have ventured into wine cask series over the years. Aberfeldy joins the fold and does not do that lightly. Today we taste an expression that was matured for no less than 18 years before being transferred to a wine…
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Port Ellen 1983 by Douglas of Drumlanrig Port Ellen Distillery has only recently started producing single malt whisky again after a forty year hiatus, but the Islay legend does have a longer history. In fact, the distillery first entered the scene exactly 200 years ago this year. I came across publications that stated Diageo will…