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Bruichladdich’s Octomore “Comus” – Ummm, wow.
Islay Region – 61%ABV – £95 | $150 Sad fact of life – there is a lot of ugliness in the world. From Hitler’s Nazi Germany to 9/11 and Bin Laden to that girl I met online all of those years ago that had...
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Glenfarclas 1953 Single Cask
Highlands Region – 47.2% ABV – $9479.71 | £5995 I’m going to keep the typing down to a minimum because, as you’ll see below, I’ve hand written this post and all of the tasting notes to accompany it....
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Sirius Whisky Purveyors – 1964 single cask of Dalmore
Highlands region – 60%ABV – $$?? Being that I don’t know much about this whisky (the exception being that it’s single cask, cask strength, 47 years old, natural color and no artificial coloring added)...
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Highland Park Thor. Hammers not included.
Islands region – 52.1%ABV – $180 | £120 I want to take the high road and not talk about the packaging choice for this whisky. However, such a statement suggests that I am not a fan of the packaging...
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Hey Dora, you want some more’a that Chieftain’s 30yo Brora?
Highlands Region – 54.6%ABV – Sherry Butt # 1523 – 469 bottles – 1981/2011 – 30yo – was $249 at K&L Wines but is sadly all sold out (in a pre-release sale nonetheless!) …how about you Fauna? You...
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Islay distilleries explained thru Rock and Roll comparisons – Part 7 –...
Islay distilleries and their whiskies explained through Rock and Roll – Part VII (of VIII) One of life’s true treats – Lagavulin Islay single malt whisky! Lagavulin was actually my gateway whisky. G-d...
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Arran’s devilish new limited release: The Devil’s Punch Bowl
Islands Region – 52.3%ABV – $129 – this stuff is selling out quickly – limited to 6,660 bottles. Yeah, that’s right. 6,660 bottles. If I were giving out packaging awards today, Arran’s Devil’s...
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A single sherry cask, cask strength 5yo Kilchoman bottled exclusively for...
Islay region – 59.6%ABV – £70 (available only through Royal Mile Whiskies) Total spoiler alert here, dear reader. I fell head over heels for this whisky I’m about to share my notes on. This is...
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Two new Arran premium single cask for the US market. One ex-sherry, one...
Arran Premium Sherry Cask, the first to be reviewed… So as to keep this post clean and more focused, I will try to do less talking and more reviewing. There is one thing, however, that I need to...
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2012 George T Stagg – An absolutely stunning whiskey.
Kentucky – 71.4% ABV – $79 (good luck finding a bottle, folks. You’ll likely find more four leaf clovers than bottles of this juice) The 2012 Buffalo Trace collection has been released and I was...
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Two new ‘Old Malt Cask’ whiskies for the US Market: 36yo Glen Grant and a...
I am fortunate in that I’ve had a few new samples of Old Malt Cask sent my way. (Hip Hop Hooray for me!!) One of the single cask ranges as part of the Douglas Laing family of Independent Bottled...
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Arran Premium Sherry Single Cask bottled for San Francisco’s “The Whisky Shop”
Islands region — 54.9% ABV – Single Cask # 96/1517 – $100, bottled for, and sold exclusively through, San Fransico’s “The Whisky Shop” This sample was sort of an out of the blue one for me. The good...
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How I almost ended up in jail or, my review of the second release of Whyte...
A mixture of Speyside & Highland region whiskies – 47.3%ABV – $175 The video below was recovered at the end of last week, one month after my trip to Antarctica. Found by the Antarctican police...
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Two Bruichladdich distillery-only “Valinch” bottlings. One is sublime, the...
And so it goes with single casks; and so it goes with whisky in general… While many whiskies can be average to really good (in the “non-point-based” scale system or, the...
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Old Pulteney 40yo bottled at 51.3% ABV – the oldest Pulteney bottled to date!
Highland region – 51.3% ABV – 493 bottles – £1399 (or £85 for a dram at Master of Malt) Forty years old. This whisky is forty years old. It’s a strange thing to drink a whisky that is older than...
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Keys to the Clan – 50ml mini bottles of Single Malt Scotch Whisky – and now,...
A couple of weeks back you might remember me waxing on about the Keys to the Clan minis program (programme, for my friends on the other side of the pond). Here’s the link to the post, just in case...
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Abbey Whisky’s Bunnahabhain from their Rare Casks series. A 23yo elegant...
Islay region – 44%ABV – £80 (only available from Abbey Whisky) I’m going to limit the preamble in today’s review because the whisky is going to be better than anything I have to say. Let me quickly...
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Springbank 15yo Single Cask, re-charred Sherry Butt 58.3% ABV
Campbeltown region – 58.3% ABV – $139 It is a very true statement that Springbank is a Scotch Whisky that is in a league of it’s own. The quality of their products tend to be a few notches above the...
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Happy (J)New Year!! Sorry for the silence as of late…
More reviews and risky/whisky opinions to come in the new year – 5774 that is! I hope my Jewish readers have a sweet new year. I wish (for all my readers) that you have a wonderful chilly fall...
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Highland Park and Linn partner up to release 40 bottles of 40yo whisky and 40...
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