Archive For April 28, 2014

Tasting the Caperdonich 1972 Gordon and McPhail Reserve

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Tasting the Caperdonich 1972 Gordon and McPhail Reserve

One of the great things about our whisky passion is our desire to share it with fellow malt meshugenes (crazies in Yiddish). At any given time, postal services around the world handle thousands of  packages containing sample offerings being sent world over between lovers of whisky.  In this spirit (well…pun intended), Joris Kooijman, a friend…

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Ardmore Traditional Cask…A VERY Special Dram (for me)

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Ardmore Traditional Cask…A VERY Special Dram (for me)

This dram is connected directly to my re-submergence into the whisky world, after a de-facto absence of almost two decades. I grew up around whisky.  In fact, my grandfather bought a bottle of Dimple in 1948 during my grandmother’s pregnancy for the toast at the ‘bris’ – the circumcision ceremony – of his firstborn son….

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