Highland Park Spirit of the Bear (40%)
Highland Park is adding a series of travel retail editions which are intended to bring age statements back into the travel retail. The Highland Park Spirit of the Bear is the basic entry level of ...
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14 Feb 2019
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31 Jan 2019
Golani Distillery 2015 Golani Vino Cask 59 – The Angel’s Choice (60.7%)
When I visited the Golani distillery last year, David said that “the casks work in the summer, that’s when the magic happens”. He has now taken that another step forward, and is ...
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28 Jan 2019
Talisker 1978, 40 Years Old, Delgado Zuleta Amontillado Sherry Finish (50%)
Talisker has a bit of a cult following, with very little in the from of very old whisky out there. Yes, there’s a yearly edition of the 25 year old, a standard 30 year old, and a 35 year ...
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15 Jan 2019
Golani Distillery Single Cask 36 – Chardonnay and Brandy (46%)
Once again David Zibell is venturing into uncharted territory, this time with peated malt and a double, yet very unconventional, maturation. This time we’re being treated to a maturation in ...
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13 Jan 2019
Golani Distillery Brewer’s Whisky 4 – ‘Never Mix Beer and Wine’ (50%)
Golani Distillery is at it again, and this time with three whiskies released this month. I’ll start with the Brewer’s Whisky, as this is a straight line in continuity in a series ...
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06 Jan 2019
The GlenAllachie 25 (46%)
The highest bottling in the new GlenAllachie core range is the 25 year old. This is a pretty complex dram, yet despite being a lot more complex than the 18 year old, which I found somewhat ...
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26 Dec 2018
Milk and Honey Distillery – The Last one – Young Single Malt (46%)
The end of 2018 marks the third full year of operations at the Milk and Honey distillery in Tel Aviv. It thus marks, also, the last of the “not yet whisky” single malts, dubbed ...
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22 Nov 2018
Two GlenAllachie Single Casks, 1989 Sherry Cask (60.3%) and 2005 Ex-Bourbon (62.6%)
GlenAllachie released a series of eight single casks for the UK market yesterday. The release ranges from three older releases: two 1989 casks (sherry and bourbon, the sherry is reviewed below), ...
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05 Nov 2018
The GlenAllechie 18 (46%)
It took me some time to get around to publishing the rest of the series of the official bottlings of the distillery. You’ll recall that I very much liked the GlenAllachie 12. I’m ...
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04 Nov 2018
Golan Heights Distillery, 4 Year Old Cask 8 T2 Port Style Yarden Cask Matured (62.1%)
This is the first four year old Israeli whisky to hit the market, and the first one to be matured in a Port style cask from Golan Heights T2 The original T2 is made from two ...
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27 Oct 2018
Glen Garioch 1979, 38 Year Old, Cask 3831, Bottled for CWS (42.9%)
After trying the 1987 single cask (AKA Sage Galore), we turn to the Glen Garioch 1979. Now every once in a while you have a dram that makes you understand something new about whisky in general or ...
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22 Oct 2018
Glen Garioch 1987, Cask 603, Bottled for CWS (47.1%)
A Glen Garioch 1987 single cask isn’t something you see often. In fact, It’s not common to see recent official bottlings of Glen Garioch for private clubs, despite being very ...
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21 Oct 2018
Talisker 8, vintage 2009, Diageo Special Releases 2018 (59.4%)
One of the most anticipated expressions of this year’s special releases is the Talisker 8. Talisker, most known for the 10 year old, has harked back to an old standard bottling from the ...
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19 Oct 2018
Whisky Show 2018 Recap and a Review of the ‘Future of Whisky’ Invergordon 44 (51.6%), Ben Nevis 21 (47.5%) and Ledaig 12 (58.4%)
The Whisky Show 2018 marks the 10th anniversary of the iconic London event. The theme of this year’s Show was ‘The Future of Whisky’, and if there’s one definitive glimpse ...
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15 Oct 2018
Bunnahabhain Moine 2008 Bordeaux Red Wine Cask Matured (58.1%)
I’m continuing my review of the Distell Limited Edition Malts, today with the Bunnahabhain Moine 2008 Bordeaux Cask. This one is interesting, because we have a Deanston matured in the same ...
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