Loch Lomond Croftenga 2008 – TWE Exclusive (54.8%)
Loch Lomond distillery is a behemoth of fascination, with four different styles of stills churning out a staggering 13 types of single malt out of traditional pot stills and straight necked ...
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18 May 2018
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17 May 2018
Whiskybase Laphroaig 2011 ‘Same as 10K” (58.7%)
Whiskybase, the Dutch database for all things whisky, currently holds 105,624 listings of bottles of whisky (and there will be more by the time you check). Granted, some of them are double (or ...
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16 May 2018
The Spirit Still “Like A Villain” – Lagavulin 9 Wine Cask Finish (52%)
Lagavulin is one of those distilleries not overly crazy on having their name on independent bottlings. That’s not to say that they don’t sell young spirit, on the contrary, and ...
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14 May 2018
Balvenie 14 Peated Triple Cask (48.3%)
Balvenie’s travel retail range holds the 12, 16 and 25. This range is matured in refill ex bourbon, first fill ex bourbon casks and first fill Oloroso sherry casks. I reviewed the Balvenie ...
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11 May 2018
Update: Major Expansion at Tel Aviv’s Milk and Honey Distillery and A Final Tasting of Cask 3 (64.5%)
I’ve been following Milk and Honey’s Cask 003 (yes, the third cask ever distilled in Tel Aviv) since it was a 3 month old infant. I first tasted it when it was three months old, in my ...
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06 May 2018
The Glenlivet 13 Sherry Oak Matured (Taiwan Exclusive) (40%)
Yesterday’s big news was carried by sctochwhisky.com, that reported from The Spirit of Speyside festival that Glenlivet is launching The Captain’s Reserve, which is a NAS expression, ...
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02 May 2018
Longrow 2007 Fresh Sauternes Cask – Springbank Society 2017 (56.3%)
Springbank is such an interesting distillery not only because of their staunchly traditional ways, but also due to the variety of whisky they produce. For the Springbank Society releases, the ...
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29 Apr 2018
Springbank 2007 Fresh Sauternes Cask – Springbank Society 2017 (57.1%)
Springbank has the most interesting membership society. It costs £50 to join, and you get a lifetime membership entitling you to buy the Springbank Society bottles, among other discounts and ...
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25 Apr 2018
Kilchoman 10 Year Old Club Release – 5th Edition (57%)
This is Kilchoman’s first 10 year old that was available to buy worldwide, released toward the end of 2016. This is a vatting of a sherry butt and a bourbon barrel, and yielded 920 bottles. ...
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23 Apr 2018
Ardbeg Kildalton (46%)
I have to admit that I was a bit hesitant with this sample, reason being that after last year’s Ardbeg Kelpie, which was the first time I liked an Ardbeg release since 2012, I was afraid to ...
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21 Apr 2018
Laphroaig 1815 Legacy Edition (48%)
Laphroaig shines beautifully once you get it beyond the entry levels (Select, Four Oak, QA Cask and even the much loved regular 10 year old). So yes, it’s really easy to say that at at a ...
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20 Apr 2018
Golan Heights Single Malt, Cask 16 In First Fill Cabernet French Oak (46%)
A friend of mine from Israel has a story to tell on each whisky bottle he has. Some of his bottles even have more than one story. His stories can range from how he found this obscure bottle in a ...
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19 Apr 2018
Golan Heights Distillery Golani Brandy Finished – Israel’s 70th Anniversary (49.7%)
The level of variance and innovation coming out of David Zibell’s Golan Heights Distillery is staggering, and while the whisky regime for the next couple of years seems to have been ...
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16 Apr 2018
Old Pulteney 2004 – Sherry Cask 128 – TWE Exclusive (62.1%)
TWE single casks are always a treat to try, as Sukhinder Singh, and his team have a knack of landing fabulous casks for the Exchange, and I expect this cask to be right up there with other TWE ...
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16 Apr 2018
Glenglassaugh Peated Port Finish (46%)
One thing that’s very clear from the latest releases by BenRiach is that Whisky Maker Rachel Barrie is taking the idea of creating core expressions for her distilleries very seriously, and ...
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