Deanston. Not a distillery I am very familiar with, but I have had a few drams here and there, and quite liked their “virgin oak” […]
Master of Malt Deanston 19 yo single cask
Month: April 2013
An Israeli distilled ‘whisky’ for Independence day
Today is Israel’s independence day (only 65 years ago Israel was one of Britain’s colonies ,and all Israelis British citizens sort of ) and what […]
G&M Caol Ila 2000 Cask #309558-309559
One of the nice things about getting samples from whisky mates, is that you sometimes get additional stuff you never expected. this one is just […]
Whisky News April 13th, 2013
A few new releases this week, and some news from Talisker. New Expression from Kilchoman – Loch Gorm Islay’s independent farm distillery, Kilchoman, has added […]
#12blends–Day 7 – Smokin’ Blended Scotch Whisky
Day 7 was Dramstat’s (Danny Williamson’s) turn to post the whisky he had chosen an interesting and obscure new blended whisky from Duncan Taylor called: […]
Bowmore Tempest Batches #3 & #4 head to head
Something good is going on at Bowmore, after a few years of releasing OK products, but nothing spectacular (not taking into consideration the very expensive […]
Arran – Batch 1 (That Boutique-y Whisky Company)
The Chaps at Master of malt, do not rest on their laurels (they have won quite a few awards recently) and are hard at work, […]
#12blends Day 6 – Johnnie Walker Platinum 18 yo
Day 6, and again my guess failed big time. Not that i have ever had this one but, still. I went for the Bailie Nicol […]
The Valinch strikes again : Auchentoshan Valinch 2012
The Auchentoshan Valinch was first released in 2011, and was one of the nicer Toshans I’ve tried last year. Its essentially a young NAS , […]
Glen Garioch vintage 1995 batch #10–#lovefirstfill
Morrison Bowmore were kind enough to organize a lovely twitter tasting under the Hashtag #lovefirstfill , in which all drams were ex-bourbon cask strength beauties, […]