Categorie: Tasting Ledger
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Single malt samples from China and Japan Is it just a matter of time before China becomes a player on the world stage of (single malt) whisky, or has that time already arrived? A few weeks ago, we read the news that Distillery Manager Iain McAllister has left Glen Scotia Distillery to aide in the…
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Glen Ord 17 years old Special Releases 2025 with mezcal A few weeks ago, I visited the Art of Drinks in Amsterdam, where one of the highlights was an older release of the Singleton of Glen Ord at 14 years old. That expression was influenced by Pyrenean and Spanish oak ends (yes, indeed) and I…
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Big Peat comes knocking on your door with fat PX Big Peat is a very popular blended malt in the regional series done by Douglas Laing. Normally, I am not the biggest fan of blended malt and the stories that are needed to create the experience, but somehow these series work very well. Most importantly,…
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Benromach 2014 from identical single sherry casks It has been a while since we tasted a few Benromach, not since February of this year. We found some samples in the drawer that were quite young and both matured on sherry casks. We are going to try them here, head to head, as they are both…
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New (local barley) high quality releases from Springbank Springbank spoils us with two Local Barley releases in one calendar year. Well, technically, the previous expression was bottled in December 2024, but that hit the shelves after new year. Anyway, the previous release was an 8 years old made from bere barley, and the follow up…
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Welcome to December with sherried Dailuaine Welcome to December! The month of togetherness, creeping close to the fire, snow outside and a glass of whisky in your hand inside. We take our single malt with a bit more spice in these times, while we countdown to Christmas. So, to kick off this month of joy,…
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Smooth sailing with Glenglassaugh on a PX-cask It has been a long while since I tasted Glenglassaugh. The whisky from the North Sea coast has not even featured on this blog yet, until today. The distillery slipped under my radar ever since my visit to the site in 2013, en 2011 before that. It was…
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Rebelling against SWA with Rye: Teaninich 8 years old It is so weird to read the name Teaninich on a label, and then notice that it is a single grain Scotch whisky. That might well confuse consumers, but on the other hand, how well-known is Teaninich, even as a single malt? If you ask me,…
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A return to form with The Macallan 110 proof Are we at the brink of a return to normalcy in the whisky landscape? More and more producers put the age statement back on their boxes and bottles, and I see prices return to a more normal level here and there too (but not everywhere, yet).…
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Glendronach gives us the Master’s Anthology Master Blender Rachel Berrie is one of the big names in the whisky industry, so when she creates, we humble whisky lovers take note. The Master’s Anthology is quite a hefty name for a series of Glendronach bottlings that explores sherry maturation. According to an article I read in…