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The 2015 TWE Whisky Show – Bigger and Better – Day One Recap!

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The 2015 TWE Whisky Show – Bigger and Better – Day One Recap!

Yes, I traveled to London again this year to take part in The Whisky Exchange’s annual Whisky Show. I flew to the UK on Tuesday, and spent three days up in Scotland (full posts on my distillery visits and my lovely afternoon at Douglas Laing, as well as my October Outturn tasting at the Scotch…

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A Lovely Glenfarclas Pure Sherry Matured Whisky – 1996 Premium Edition

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A Lovely Glenfarclas Pure Sherry Matured Whisky – 1996 Premium Edition

My eldest son recently turned 18, and got a bottle of his birth year vintage Glenfarclas as part of the birthday gifts. This is a special edition for the German market called “Premium Edition” and is a bottling of 11 sherry casks distilled between 15.2.1996 and 20.11.1996. They were bottled on 30.8.2009, just a few…

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Glenfarclas 12 – So Very Glenfarclas!!

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Glenfarclas 12 – So Very Glenfarclas!!

2015 is a special year at Glenfarclas. 150 years ago, in 1865, father and son, John and George Grant, bought the distillery, so in a way, this is the really important anniversary, as for the past century and a half, the distillery has been independent (well, almost….there was the Pattison partnership in 1895 and the tsunami…

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Two Happy Occasions Coincide: My 500th Single Malt and 45th Birthday Dram – Glenfarclas 1969 Family Cask

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Two Happy Occasions Coincide: My 500th Single Malt and 45th Birthday Dram – Glenfarclas 1969 Family Cask

About a month and a half ago, I gave my friend and fellow blogger Yoav access to the list of whiskys I had tasted, which I had just moved onto the computer. After an hour or so Yoav tells me that he has a challenge for me. He noticed the list was at 460 and my birthday was…

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Fino Sherry and Glenfarclas Spirit – What 47 Years Will Do…

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Fino Sherry and Glenfarclas Spirit – What 47 Years Will Do…

One of the most popular dream drams at the London Whisky Show was the 1966 Glenfarclas aged in Fino Sherry casks, and no wonder, as you don’t get to see Fino Sherry coming out of Glenfarclas every day. The official story is of long forgotten casks, which then had to be traced back to diaries kept by…

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