Categorie: Tasting Ledger
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Arran embraces the beauty of locally grown barley In my surroundings, there is a group of hardcore Arran fans, and I got tipped very early about a new release we have on the table today. It is the first batch of Arran Barley at 10 years old. The idea to source your most important core…
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Tasting the core range of Finnish rye whisky Kyrö As a true and self-declared whisky nerd, I can do without the gimmicks you sometimes run into on whisky festivals. And sometimes you just cannot avoid it. Especially not when you bring along a female companion that is enticed by the inevitable chocolate stand. It was…
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Laphroaig Càirdeas with white port and Maderia Laphroaig is an Islay single malt whisky but make no mistake, however quaint that might sound, this distillery is also about big business. As one of the biggest and most popular peated whiskies in the world, it has become difficult to compare Laphroaig to more artisanal producers like…
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A single grain(storm) blog with (almost) all distilleries How often do we get the chance to taste almost all single grain whiskies from the different distilleries in one blog? Well, never, unless you are lucky like me. This blog was conceived around one sample (the North British) but through shares and gifts I suddenly found…
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Three Springbank powerhouses at 12 years old Not one, not two, but three of Springbank Distillery official releases at 12 years old for you on this monthly Campbeltown Wednesday. We include the very latest Cask Strength release, and compare to one older version, and to top it off a cage bottling at 12 years old.…
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Craft Spirits hits the bullseye with a Linkwood BBR As I am now well underway in my second year of full blown blogging about whisky, I can make some observations of the modern-day whisky industry. One of these is that producers and bottlers alike love their PX-casks. That is of course very understandable. PX is…
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Old Ballantruan: peated Tomintoul might yet surprise! What do we think of peated whisky made at places that are not normally known for peated whisky? For me, I sometimes like the variation. I think Benromach makes a tremendous peated malt, but some sherry matured expressions made quite the conversation a few years ago. I even…
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The yearly SR rant and two Lagavulin 12 years old Some unconfirmed chatter I picked up in the community states that the yearly Special Releases done by Diageo are coming to an end. If that were the case, I would be very sad, but on the other hand it would be best to come up…
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The talk of the (Campbel)town: Kilkerran 16 years old Talk about the whisky of 2025 that creates a lot of chatter, and this Kilkerran 16 years old that we taste today must be on the list. Is it only because of the deep, dark colour of the liquid, certainly compared to earlier releases? Or is…
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Glendullan certainly not the “Glen Dull One” Glendullan, also nicknamed “Glen Dull One“, is one of the many stills in Dufftown and with quite a hefty production: 5 million liters per year. Most of it went to blends, I’m sure, but then came along the introduction of The Singleton malts. The little settlement of Dufftown…