Categorie: Tasting Ledger
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Tennessee Bourbon versus Tennessee Rye We do not know a lot about Tennessee whiskey, other than it is the home state of Jack Daniel’s, and that should be enough. Still, through some sample shares, two very distinct products from Tennessee landed on my desk. Let us see what we can make of it. Tennessee Bourbon…
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Meeting Chorlton Whisky with Ledaig and Nc’nean Chorlton Whisky is a bottler you might recognise from just looking at the bottles. Their labels are perhaps one of the most beautiful in the industry. Because I did not know anything more about this bottler, I reached out and got a friendly reply from David Bennet, the…
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Tasting Ben Nevis single malt trio at middle age level Ben Nevis was always something of a secret, its quality only clear to those in the know, the connaisseur with a taste for the more complex spirit. That was, until a certain vintage became such an explosive success, everybody was talking about Ben Nevis. The…
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Kilkerran Triple Distilled will become core range You may have picked up on the whisper, but I know for a fact it is true: the triple distilled malt made at Glengyle Distillery will become part of the Kilkerran core range. I asked someone inside the J&A Mitchell company for more details, but found only tightly…
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Beware of the Bowmore Bombastic! That the whisky market is changing at a speedy rate, no one will have missed. Of course, this threatens jobs in the industry and might lead to closures or mothballing of distilleries. These cycles seem to repeat themselves every so many years. Sad but inevitable. So for a whole generation,…
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Lagg Small Batch tries on a Manzanilla finish The Isle of Arran now boasts two distilleries, and even though that is still miles and miles behind “whisky island” Islay, it is something to be proud of. The Lochranza single malt better known as Arran has a strong following. The “take no prisoners” peat violence that…
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All aboard the train to Tamdhu Dalbeallie Station! The Dalbeallie release by Tamdhu is meant to honour the quaint little train station next to the distillery, now one of the landmarks on this section of the Speyside Way. I first tasted the Dalbeallie expression in 2019, when only the second release came out for the…
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Clynelish Bonanza with 1989, 1997, 2011 and 2014 There are times you find yourself looking at a sample drawer that contains no Clynelish at all, and the next moment you find a bonanza of them. I contemplated what to do; split up all these samples in separate blogs, or try to plow through all of…
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Complexity aplenty in this Benromach 2008 We love a good Benromach from time to time on LPA! In fact, one of the very first blogs we did was tasting notes for a Benromach Vintage release. We tend to lean towards the very naked Benromach expression, meaning: matured on bourbon casks. Today, we must be in…
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Ardbeg 2000: back in time to when ‘young days’ The biggest news to come from Ardbeg in the past year must have been that Jackie Thomson decided to move on, after being connected to the distillery for almost 30 years. She is going to help out creating the visitor experience at the brand new Portintruan…