Categorie: Tasting Ledger
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Kilkerran Campbeltown malt showing its fruity side The Glengyle Distillery celebrated the 20th birthday of their Kilkerran Campbeltown single malt with lots of fanfare last year, with a concert by Travis even. One could wonder why they did not want to wait another five years for the quarter century, but that might have something to…
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Complex Cragganmore from Malts of Scotland For the debut of Cragganmore on this little blog we have found a nice sample of an about 20 years old expression. This well-known Speyside distillery if one of the original Classic Malts selected by Diageo to showcase regions in Scotland. Even though Cragganmore produces a not so standard…
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Fettercairn at entry level: a bit underwhelming In longer ago days, when I was without beard but with more hair on the top of my head, Fettercairn was a single malt very much in the shadows of the Scotch landscape. I suppose most output went to the blends of Whyte & Mackay, but there was…
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Kilchoman Ballinaby: a new Travel Exclusive Kilchoman Ballinaby is a new expression released by Islay’s Farm Distillery and named after (I suspect) the tall and slender standing stone that can be found near a farm of the same name, just northwest of Loch Gorm. Why I can’t say this with certainty is because information about…
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Kyoto Miyako Japanese whisky needs more work Friendliness knows no boundaries in the land of whisky, and so my good friend Robbert shared rather decently sized samples of today’s whiskies with me. We are visiting Japan and tasting products released by the Kyoto Miyako Distillery. Their website offers a lot of information on this first…
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Thy Danish Whisky offering amazing diversity Dutch bottler and importer Hogshead provided me a bunch of samples after I contacted them for just one that I wanted to use for my infamous Soap Blog. That was a nice surprise. Included in the package were no less than four samples of the new darling of craft…
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Young Glen Ord single malt works well with sherry Glen Ord is a beautiful workhorse distillery owned by Diageo and located in the Muir of Ord, just north of Inverness. I had the pleasure of visiting the distillery a few times in the past, and was always impressed by what a clean and efficient operation…
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Longmorn consistency through the decades Longmorn, as the next door neighbour of Benriach Distillery, is gently puffing away, producing gallons and gallons of malt whisky for blends like Chivas and Ballentine’s. As a single malt, official releases have been very sparse over the last few decades. A trustworthy go-to expression was the old 15 years…
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Single malt whisky in its purest form: Abhainn Dearg If I ever tasted something from the Abhainn Dearg Distillery on the Isle of Lewis before, I am not entirely sure about. Perhaps a new make spirit. That is one of the benefits of having a blog, now I just write everything down. When you do…
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Experience the sea with Torabhaig Sound of Sleat We do some island and peninsula hopping this week on LPA, and today we set foot on the Isle of Skye. A question that might infuriate people is: does an island stopping being an island when a bridge connects it to the mainland? I think not, but…