Categorie: Tasting Ledger
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Auchentoshan with an injection of oloroso sherry Auchentoshan recently rebranded their bottles and I must say: they could not have gone much uglier with their presentation. They are not unique in the approach that was chosen. The overly simplified labels we have seen on Benromach and Glencadam (where I do think it has some flair)…
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Tullibardine Octave: Ruby Port steroids! Independent bottler Duncan Taylor pride themselves with years of experimenting with smaller casks, favouring the effect it has on a whisky. They select from their own stock (single) malt that is maturing in more regular casks, and then give it a finish in the smaller octave. You can read more…
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Glenlossie: the ideal malt for blending purposes One thing I loved doing during my stay in Speyside in June was just jump in the car, fire up the navigation and go “distillery hopping”. With virtually a production site on every corner, I truly exhausted my camera folder by snapping pictures. I have to say, I…
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Tasting three sister casks of Limburgse Whisky You might have read my diary entry preceding today’s blog, which was a visit to the Veldman Distillery in the deep south of The Netherlands. Owner Willem Veldman releases only very sparsely onto the market, like three casks at a time. We are going to taste these sister…
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Memorable Woodford Reserve Double Oaked Oh, Americans! They always have to do you one better, don’t they? In Scotland, it is sufficient to say “double oak” for a whisky matured in more than one barrel. Today we got a bottle on the table that was not matured in double oak, no sir, no ma’am, it…
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Tomintoul honours the “gentle dram” reputation Is there any whisky producer out there that would describe their own whisky as modest? For the summertime, I was in the mood for a single malt that did not ask too much of me, and also fitted the weather. We had our share of heatwaves, did we not?…
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Old Jura cut on the verge of a transition Indie bottler Decadant Drinks have been releasing interesting bottlings with a label that calls the whisky “old” for a while now. We have seen O.M. and O.I. and even O.O., all standing for Old Mull, Islay or Orkney. New to the fold is the O.J., not…
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Ardbeg Trudernish 15 years old: a first look! With the Anthology series, Ardbeg already gave us a taste of what the distillery can do with the middle-aged stock in their warehouses. Now the brand new Ardbeg Trudernish 15 years old is introduced as a core range bottling. On top of that, we get a more…
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Proud to introduce to you: Dubhghlas Distillery Laura and Cees Stravers are two Dutch whisky enthusiasts that I have met many times in my days as (board) member of the Usquebaugh Society. If memory serves me well, they live a life at sea, interrupted by stretches of time on land. They have taken the step…
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The Beast of Dufftown: true to form in two samples Mortlach has a strong reputation for releases of sherried expressions. It therefore peaked my interested when I saw that edition # 84 of Signatory’s popular 100 proof edition series was a Mortlach quite dark in colour, matured in PX butts. Since the price of this…