Categorie: Tasting Ledger
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Hand Filled Distillery Exclusives from Campbeltown The distillery exclusive bottlings at Springbank Distillery are something really special, if you compare to offers from other distilleries. In the visitor shop, you cannot miss a few big glass demijohns with a tap and a sign on it. Here you can taste and draw your own stuff, and…
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Sherried Benrinnes versus meaty (or not) Mortlach There are distilleries in Scotland that are known for some qualities that few others have. In the case of Benrinnes and Mortlach that we will be tasting today, it is a rather meaty character. This works particularly well with sherry cask maturation. The story about Mortlach is well-known,…
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Tasting notes for Holyrood single malt: Embra & Ambir Upon visiting the Holyrood Distillery in Edinburgh in late December 2024, we were quite taken by all the quality spirit we got to taste. While taking back whisky on a plane is quite a challenge these days, Holyrood offered a nice solution. A lot of their…
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Fruity Glenlossie with a dash of sherry Glenlossie is a name you barely see, and if you do, it will probably be because an independent bottler decided to put a cask into glass. Owner Diageo uses the distillery in tandem with Mannochmore and most of its production goes to blends. Signatory Vintage in the meantime…
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Tasting notes for two Glenmorangie expressions Glenmorangie is one of the truly big names in Scotch single malt whisky, but to me it always brings me back to the fact that it almost killed my interest in whisky early on. After learning to appreciate the difference between blended Scotch and single malt whisky, I bought…
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Glen Moray in a successful marriage with white wine Glen Moray is quite the darling of many whisky enthusiasts. It has an accessible style but it is certainly not a dime a dozen single malt. If left alone for a good 12 to 15 years, the fruity character can be very rewarding. Interestingly enough, this…
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A complex mix of Bowmore Islay single malt Bowmore had such an interesting history, being not only the oldest whisky distillery on Islay, but even amongst the oldest in the whole of Scotland. Among people in the know, Bowmore is also known for that dark age, when all whisky seemed to come with a block…
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Two Macduff whisky by independent bottlers Macduff is a distillery that most times flies comfortably under the radar, because in general their output reaches the market in single malt form under the name Glen Deveron or The Deveron. Obviously, being alongside the river Deveron in the valley of the same name, is an easy way…
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Fragrant drops from an Inchgower on Sauterness On our quest to put at least every working Scottish distillery on this blog once, we discovered an expression of Inchgower in our sample drawer. Inchgower is one of the big workhorse distilleries in Scotland, mostly providing blending stock for the Bell’s blended whisky. Being a Diageo plant,…
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We get lucky with Widow Jane Lucky Thirteen We travel to America again with our whiskey focus, with a to me previously unknown bourbon in the glass. The expression we will taste today comes via Paris though, because it was selected by importer La Maison du Whisky. Widow Jane is a Brooklyn (Red Hook) based…