Categorie: Tasting Ledger
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Korukabegura new make: Precision, Purity, Provenance You Only Live Twice is my favourite James Bond novel, penned by spiritual father Ian Fleming. In one of the early chapters, Tiger Tanaka talks to 007 about Japanese whisky. He drinks Suntory. “Went up to the distillery some while ago and met one of the family. Told me…
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Nostalgic Macallan bottled in batch by Signatory The releasing of single malt whisky without disclosing the provenance of the stills, yeah, it has become standard practice by now. It annoys me to no end, but when bottlers start giving hints about what you are actually buying, my heart is softened. Like today’s specimen. Signatory has…
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Royal Brackla forever linked to blended Scotch? You can always count on Archives to deliver very pure and distillate driven single malt whisky. Like the sample we have on the table today, from the Royal Brackla Distillery. With a capacity of 4,3 million litres per annum, the site in Cawdor (Nairn) is an important element…
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Whisky overboard! Lindores drowning in firkin casks Sometimes I write an introduction first, sometimes I taste a whisky first and return later to write this little intro. For this blog, it was the latter, and that is a good thing. Because I am drinking a Lindores today, but it has no point to say anything…
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New core range Glen Scotia 12 years old (2025) Glen Scotia goes from strength to strength and since we are quietly waiting for other distilleries to open in the beautiful wee toon that is Campbeltown, we enjoy the whiskies we can drink from there during our monthly Campbeltown Wednesday. On the bottom of our sample…
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Strathmill by Signatory makes the sherry wood sing Just like the Glen Spey we tasted a few months ago, Strathmill is not really a household name for the average whisky enthusiast. You can notice it straight away when you post something about such an unknown distillery: the likes are absent and the hits on the…
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Blended Scotch with a twist by Living Souls Living Souls are one of these bottlers that do not mind mixing things up with interesting variations in the bottle. Not afraid to provide whisky enthusiasts with categories that are considered beneath the quality and stature of single malt whisky, we get something interesting to drink. The…
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The Single Oak Project: Buffalo Trace spoiled the geeks If you think the Glenfarclas Family Cask series was an impressive whisky collection, we can geek you out by explaining what the Buffalo Trace Distillery over in Kentucky did with their whiskey. They created the Single Oak Project and they call it ‘the most extensive bourbon…
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A Glenlivet single cask that takes no prisoners Welcome to my (official) 300th regular tasting note blog. By no means is this the 300th whisky we taste on Long Pour Amour, because we do like to taste more than one whisky per blog, but we keep count of our regular blogs. This means three episodes…
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Ardnamurchan, Dailuaine and Glengoyne by 12 Barrels A Dutch band of brothers named “12 Barrels” at one point bought … you guessed it … 12 casks of whisky, to be bottled over the years. Most of the bottlings are done with an own label, but some distilleries do not really go for that. The 12…