After the glorious “Whispering smoke” arrive at out 2nd single cask tasting note, this time a Highland single cask, distilled 1990. I’ve seen some sites […]
More Wemyss : Red Berry Cream Single Cask vintage 1990
A few hours in Macau where The Macallan shines bright
Richard Barr is a member of the Whisky Israel tasting society , a blog correspondent at times, and a good whisky friend and big whisky […]
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 Old Pulteney ‘Row to the Pole’ edition
Today We will be tasting a new Old Pulteney expression : “Row to the pole” edition. this bottling is commemorating the first ever successful row […]
Wemyss Malts Take III : Tasting the ‘Spice King’ 8yo
We come to the third and last Wemyss blended malts aged 8 years (the next ones i will be tasting will be single cask malts). […]
Wemyss Malts Take II : Tasting the ‘Smooth Gentleman’ 8 yo
Another Wemyss blended malt, this time we move on from the Islay emphasis of the peat chimney, to this 8 year old with an emphasis […]
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 Wemyss malts
The Wemyss (pronunced : weems) family have had a longstanding passion for malt whisky and their connections with the industry date back to the turn […]
Latest Poll Results : If you could reopen a mothballed or demolished distillery, which one would it be and why?
We asked you a few weeks ago, a very simple question : “If you could reopen a mothballed or demolished distillery, which one would it […]
Tasting Dailuaine 1983 , 27yo Single Cask (Master of Malt)
This one concludes the recent excellent single cask bottlings released by MoM (North British 20 yo,Cragganmore 20 yo,and the somewhat weird Dalmore 14yo) which i […]