After the first member of the “dimensions” line , that excellent Aberlour ex-Bourbon cask, i had high hopes for this expression from the same series. […]
Tasting Bunnahabhain 23 Year Old 1988 – Dimensions (Duncan Taylor)
Category: Islay
Tasting Compass Box ‘The Last Vatted Malt’
At midnight on the 22nd of November 2011 an era has ended. The term Vatted Malt has been declared illegal, and a new term has […]
Tasting Kintra Whisky Laphroaig 13 yo single cask
We continue tasting the newest bottling from Kintra, and after that Coal Ila, another Islay from Laphroaig. This time aged in a sherry butt. Sherry […]
Quick Dram : Kintra Whisky Caol Ila 10 yo , 2000 vintage
Kintra whisky is a small IB based in NL, and we’ve had the pleasure of sampling quite a few expressions bottled by it in the […]
Tasting Laphroaig Cairdeas 2011 Ileach Edition
This year’s Feis Ile edition is carries no age statement, and should be fairly young. I’ve tasted the 2009,2010 (see Shai’s excellent guest post about […]
Tasting the ‘New’ Laddie 10 year old (Batch 1)
So, here comes the post about the much awaited Laddie 10. The first bottling of a 10 year old distilled after the distillery was “resurrected” […]
Wemyss Malts Take IV : Whispering Smoke 1981, Single Cask (Islay)
Time for the big guns: the Wemyss malts single cask bottlings, selected by Charlie Mclean. I’ve chosen to start with a peated cask, and IMHO […]
Tasting the Wemyss malts ‘Peat Chimney’
As a peat-head, no better start than a peaty blended malt for starting our little Wemyss malts series of tasting notes, right? This is a […]
Tasting the Ardbeg Alligator–finally
Exactly one month ago, the Ardbeg Alligator Committee release (for discussion) was released and i posted the official notes for it. It’s been very tough […]
Tasting Port Charlotte 9 yo, Single Cask bottled for whisky friends Denmark
In my daily ramblings in cyberspace I get to meet a lot of whisky friends from all over the world be it Europe America or […]