Categorie: Tom’s Dram Diaries

A story about collecting Tomatin 25 year old expressions The Tomatin highland malt distillery in the little settlement of the same name, creates a wonderful whisky. Known for decent, strong Highland malt at a younger age, but loved for the elegant fruity explosions you can find in whisky matured for at least 20 years. Located…

Dublin Liberties Distillery: Welcome to Hell Years ago, in 2016, I went on an Ardbeg Tour during the Fèis Ìle festival and learned a valuable lesson: the story rarely only revolves around the whisky. You need to include heritage, your background, where you hail from. This concept is brought to perfection at the Dublin Liberties Distillery in…

Berlin: Whisky City with some hidden gems What combines better with a good glass of Scotch whisky, than a good football match and a menu that makes you thirsty for the next glass? You can find it all at Offside in the Berlin district of Wedding. During my visit to the city in late February of…

Campbeltown, Scotland Springside Distillery was a very modest operation consisting of “a scattered lot of buildings placed around a small yard”, if we may believe famous whisky chronicler Alfred Barnard. From the backside of the obviously more known Springbank Distillery you walk up Glebe Street to see something of these buildings left. Campbeltown was at…