Categorie: Tasting Ledger
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Heavenly 14 years old Bunna from the Barrel Baron Funny story about this one. In January, I visited Islay for the first time in some nine years. We dropped in here and there, and also visited the Bunnahabhain Distillery on our last few hours on the island. The ferry would take us to the Kintyre…
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A new Ardnamurchan Cask Release and side dishes The pile with Ardnamurchan samples was growing so this blog was in the planning for a while. And then came the news of a new Ardnamurchan distillery release. A new Madeira Cask Release hit the shelves just last week. I am keeping track of these very bang…
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Springbank 15 years old: multicomplex single malt Springbank 15 years old is a highly sought after single malt, from a distillery that already sees its bottles fly off the shelves in whatever form or expression it is released. When you visit the distillery in Campbeltown, there is only a limited amount of this “15” that…
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Ardnahoe Infinite Loch: straightforward peat delight We like to keep up with Ardnahoe releases, ever since the Inaugural Release came out in 2024. Since then we have tasted the Society 2024 release too, and managed to catch the Feis Ile 2024 expression during my visit to Islay in January. For that last one, the circumstances…
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Thy Danish single malt whisky bringing tears to your eyes Let me warn you beforehand, this tasting note might make your children cry. I am writing my introduction two days after tasting the sample, and still I have not fully recovered. Read on with caution, while I bring in remembrance the first time I sipped…
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Secret Highlands: Clynelish hide and seek … or not? Even though in more recent times we have seen names of undisclosed distilleries being subtly or not so subtly hinted, there is still a great deal of “secret Highland” around. Not so long ago, this would most often be a Clynelish, but this is not always…
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Putting the Isle of Jura to the test When you visit meme-pages that mock the world of whisky, chances are that you have seen the whisky I am going to taste today ridiculed with devilish pleasure. Jura and its much more famous companion in the Whyte & Mackay portfolio, The Dalmore, are a source of…
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The Balvenie Golden Cask (Frankenstein) expression It is one year since I started blogging on a brand new website called Whisky Odyssey. On Leap Day 2024 we kicked off, and last Saturday we celebrated it with a fantastic Clynelish from 1974. A few weeks ago, I started making a list of all the (active) Scottish…
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A first introduction to the Cotswolds Distillery The Cotswolds are a beautiful region in the central parts of England and high on my list to visit one day. It was a matter of time, I suppose, that the giant surge in whisky distilleries all over the world would also take England by storm. The Cotswold…
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Eagle Rare 10 years old: a memorable Bourbon My whisky hobby was still quite in its infancy when I visited New York City in December 2008. I already figured out where to get whisk€y and therefor I found myself in the Park Avenue Liquor Store on Madison Avenue. It was a wonder to walk around…