Archive For September 25, 2017

Not Really a Rant: Addressing the Whisky Pricing ‘Crisis’ of 2017

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Not Really a Rant: Addressing the Whisky Pricing ‘Crisis’ of 2017

I don’t know about you, I hate admitting that I’m wrong. Ranting about whisky prices, especially on the secondary whisky market is nothing new. Everybody has done it. I’ve done it, hell, I even had a beautiful Port Ellen price chart tracing bottle prices in 2013 (here) and 2014 (here). While in the first one…

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Balblair 1991 Single Sherry Cask 1712 – TWE Exclusive (51.9%)

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Balblair 1991 Single Sherry Cask 1712 – TWE Exclusive (51.9%)

Balblair should be a heavily favored distillery among anoraks, as this Highlands distillery has forsworn the use of chill filtration and artificial coloration, as well as the production of NAS whisky. With that move, the distillery switched to using only vintages, and the age is to be deduced by the drinker from the bottling date, also…

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Golan Heights Distillery First Single Malt Whisky – 3 Year Old Cask 1 (61.4%)

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Golan Heights Distillery First Single Malt Whisky – 3 Year Old Cask 1 (61.4%)

Is Israel becoming a whisky powerhouse? Well, hardly, but the local scene is extremely interesting. There are currently three active distilleries in Israel, two of which have been covered in this blog, and following Milk and Honey’s first three year whisky bottled in May, we have Golan Heights Distillery’s first three year old whisky being…

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