Categorie: Tasting Ledger
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Embracing the soapy whisky in Blended Scotch Living Souls is a new bottler from Glasgow that has launched some interesting new products on the market. In a heavily saturated whisky spectrum, the odd ones stand out, and the 40 year old Blended Scotch by Living Souls that landed on my desk last month, could well…
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Highland Park 12 years old: return to normalcy? When famous whisky writer Michael Jackson used the words “the greatest all-rounder in the world of whisky”, or words to that effect, I believe he describe specifically the Highland Park 18 years old. And no one would dare correct him, because it was very true in those…
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An introduction to Milk & Honey Distillery Something more exotic today, as we travel via the glass to Tel Aviv where we find the Milk & Honey Distillery, shortened to M&H. The production site is one of the latest projects Dr. Jim Swan was involved in, before his passing in 2017. With such a big…
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Speyside’s future: a trio of Ballindalloch single malt The Spirit of Speyside Festival comes to an end today, and that deserves a fully packed farewell session with a trio of Ballindalloch single malt whisky. Even though the 21st century is marked by whisky distilleries popping up like mushrooms, for such a big whisky producing region…
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Pleased to get better acquainted with Auchroisk Speyside is a region where you can stumble upon a distillery at every corner and crossroad. Here you will find some of the most legendary names in the whisky world. The other side is that the region is also home to quite some workhorses, or should I say:…
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Tomintoul 18 years old: daily dram from the Livet valley In this Spirit of Speyside Festival week I go back to my own visit to that festival, in 2019, where we also called on the Tomintoul Distillery. Founded in 1965, this was one of the newer distilleries in Scotland before the whisky boom of this…
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The Singleton of Dufftown 18 years old in the glass Speyside is the home of many big brands and today starts the weeklong festival to celebrate this renowned whisky region. While going through my stack of samples, I noticed a relevant difference between the output of all kinds of Speyside distilleries. Simply put: the bigger…
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Brand new Ardnamurchan Mezcal and a single cask Two new Ardnamurchan landed on the doorstep, so I have to make a special blog about that. There is no denying I am a big fan of this peninsula Highland distillery, that almost features as a missing link between Ben Nevis and Springbank. I have yet to…
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On the fence for the quality of Speyburn single malt With one of the most famous brands in Speyside at a 16 minute walking distance, Speyburn was probably always destined to stand in the shadow of Glen Grant. Slowly but surely however, Speyburn Disitllery started releasing quality whisky – flying well under the radar, making…
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Bridging the gap between Genever and Whisky Hooghoudt is a very well known name in the Dutch distilled spirits landscape. Over here, they are most famous for their Genever. The family owned business is in production since 1888 and are awarded the royal status, which is common for companies that are over 100 years of…