Categorie: Tasting Ledger
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Discovering the Speyside joy of Braes of Glenlivet Sometimes you just have to fish an odd sample out of the bin, right? Today, we taste a Speyside single malt that always happens to confuse people. That is because of a name change somewhere along the way. You see, Chivas Brothers when it was still called…
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Musings on the future while tasting Hazelburn There had been a two year hiatus in the release of the regular Hazelburn 10 years old, so fans of the triple distilled unpeated brand from the Springbank stills rejoiced when a new bottle hit the market. We had seen the occasional special release of Hazelburn, to keeps…
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Talisker Port Ruighe offers a nice variation The Glasgow Whisky Club gathers every now and then in the Bon Accord pub, and in January 2026 me and some friends were invited to join in. One of the members contributed a bottle, that he introduced with a hilarious roasting of Talisker. Only to go on to…
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Secret Ardbeg on red wine: Kilnaughton Islay malt Bear with me, I found a sample in my stash of which I have no idea what it is. It says Kilnaughton and that is a Secret Islay. The bottler is known to not shy away from cask variations for maturing their whisky, with most of the…
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Glenglassaugh Portsoy: the soul of coastal malt Finally, we managed to get the official Glenglassaugh on the table, or at least one of them. With a proud signature of Rachel Barrie on the label, expectations are high. This Master Blender, who revamped the Benriach core range a few years ago, knows how to make attractive…
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Glen Ord: the new powerhouse single malt whisky A question for the whisky quiz participants: where does Glen Ord Distillery stand amongst the biggest malt whisky producers? Well, the answer might surprise, but Glen Ord is the sixth largest in Scotland, after big names like The Macallan, Glenfiddich and The Glenlivet. Luckily, there is more…
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Blackadder’s Auld Edinburgh Highland single malt Blackadder is an independent bottler that I believe coloured the beginning of the whisky journey for a lot of my contemporaries. The products from this in 1995 established company were (and are) readily available in my country, so obviously some bottles made it to my shelf too. The company…
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Lovely and bright Glen Elgin by Malt Squared Glen Elgin seems such an average malt, interchangeable with many of its sister distilleries like Glenlossie, Mannochmore and Glen Spey. And still, this has an extra vibrant edge compared to those. This is a malt made with extra care, not in the least because of worm tubs…
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Celebrating the new Tomatin Year of the Horse We are on the threshold of the Year of the Horse. This year of the Fire Horse starts tomorrow, on 17 February, and runs to 5 February 2027. The Horse is one of the twelve Chinese zodiac signs and this one is number seven. Looking at the…
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Tasting three Mystery Malts at 11, 12 and 13 years We are rapidly working our way through the Thompson Brothers Mystery Malts, and not quick enough, it seems. New batches have already launched. Anyway! The idea is simple. You get a black bottle with a big white question mark on it, and then you just…