Categorie: Tasting Ledger
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Some rarities from The Glenlivet and Linn House An independent retailer is a rare sight in the Dutch liquor store landscape. Most of them have attached their name to one of the big retail chains. Both ways have their pros and cons, I am sure. My local store is one of those independents, which gives…
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Hebridean Moon rising with Ledaig Yes, yes, I know, we did a few Ledaig samples just under two months ago, but there is a new expression out that sparked my curiosity. And everybody likes Ledaig! So here we go. We will start with a single cask expression bottled by Archives which matured in a sherry…
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Pass the fruit: Bushmills in the tasting glass Always nice to visit part of the core range of a certain distillery. Today, we put the spotlight on an old but strong brand: Bushmills. We are drinking Irish whiskey here, but this product comes from Northern Ireland actually. Bushmills is the oldest licensed distillery in the…
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A Cigar Malt from Speyside that gets the job done Themed whisky was not such a big thing back when I started developing a taste for single malt. In fact, the only releases I can indeed remember, were the one we taste today. If I am not mistaken (and Whiskybase says I am not) there…
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Ultimate mellow allrounder: Knockando 18 years old Knockando is one of my favourite easy-drinking-every-day-drams. I often have a bottle of this Speyside whisky open. The distillery, sadly not open for visitors, is one of the north bank distilleries in Speyside, along with Tamdhu (500 metres upstream the Spey River) and Dalmunach (also nearby, but downstream). …
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Unravelling the Enigma whiskies by Cadenhead Enigma is a fairly new label introduced by Cadenhead’s a few years ago and since the first one in 2023 we have seen a steady stream of bottles. One of the very first blogs we did on LPA’s predecessor Whisky Odyssey was actually an Enigma Islay (presumed to be…
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Baby Ardbeg (Red Bag): a master stroke by Dramfool Sometimes, one has to walk around the edges of the extreme in the wonderful whisky world, and for today I think I have found such an extreme. Independent bottler Dramfool offers us very tasty and indeed thought-provoking bottlings. Two years ago, on the way to the…
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The Macallan Classic Cut: another disappointment The Macallan was at one time an untouchable whisky distillery and brand, with an almost sole claim on what a sherry matured whisky should be. These days are long gone, and what emerged from the ruins of that once mighty reputation, is something else entirely. A new distillery that…
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Royal Lochnagar: great introduction to Highland malt Royal Lochnagar is a romantic whisky. In my early days of exploring what single malts were out there, the name struck me, and seeing the bottle for the first time in the livery of the day, it stood out. Different from other Diageo single malts, it was not…
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Tamnavulin: the ultimate bang-for-your-buck malt? With a production capacity of well over 4 million litres per annum, the Tamnavulin Distillery had enough whisky available to start growing drastically. And so it did. It has become THE fastest growing single malt in the world, creeping up to the top 10 of them. Who would have thought…