Another Ardbeg, another media frenzy and another sold out edition. Much talk among the whisky nerds about the mini samples bottles this year, due to […]
Tasting Ardbeg Supernova 2014 -SN2014 Committee Release
Category: Islay
Big Peat Xmas Edition 2014 Batch 61
Another wee sample from Maltstock, of one of my favourite Blended malts with a major peaty profile (and a cool looking bottle, mind you!) – […]
Bowmore Tempest 10 yo Batch #5
Bowmore Tempest has been one of my go-to Bowmores in recent years, with a few bottles polished off from older batches (1,2). I can say […]
Kilchoman Feis Ile 2014
The smallest and youngest of distilleries on Islay (that is until next year, when Gartbreck distillery is up and working) did also produce a festival […]
Caol Ila 2002 – Feis Ile 2014 festival edition
Time to continue the FE 2014 tasting notes with the 2nd bottling for the Festival by Diageo. This expression is essentially a 12 year old […]
Laphroaig Cairdeas 2014 Edition (Feis Ile 2014)
After that Spectacular Lagavulin FE 2014, who set the bar so high, it would be quite a challenge for the rest of the FE bottlings, […]
The Bowmore Travel Retail Range : Part II –‘White Sands’ 17 yo
After the lovely NAS Black sands with all that sherry influence, comes an age statement expression intended for travel retail, not something you see every […]
The Bowmore Travel Retail Range : Part I – ‘Black Rock’ NAS
Time to take a look at Bowmore’s offering for the travel retail market (duty free), after Bowmore changed the entire line-up of offerings a few […]
The new Laphroaig Select – impressions
This particular expressions of Laphroaig has been discussed quite a lot on social media (see my previous post: The Laphroiag ‘Select’ NAS fiasco … As […]
Celebrating Kilchoman day 2014 at Feis Ile with Kilchoman 100% Islay 4th edition , 2014
It’s Kilchoman day today at Feis Ile on Islay, and no better way to celebrate it from afar (sadly,but next year there is hope!) than […]