Golani Vino Cabernet Oak Cask 72 (55.3%)
I like whisky in wine casks, and have reviewed the Golani Vino previously. However, it has come to my attention that the profile of the vino has changed lately, using Cabernet casks from the ...
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26 Aug 2020
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09 Jun 2020
Dràm Mòr Glenrothes 10 Year Old, Oloroso Finish, Cask 5280 (58%)
Dràm Mòr is a new independent bottler on the market, with a current four bottle offering: This Glenrothes 10 year old, Glen Garioch 8 year old, Caol Ila 6 year old and a sherry finished Benriach, ...
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31 May 2020
Two Glen Garioch Single 1968 Sherry Casks Doing A Head to Head – From the Saddest Year Since 1797
1968 was a horrible year for Glen Garioch. A drought was ravishing Islay, and DCL/SMD was worried about the supply of peated whisky for its blends three years hence. It was decided that one of ...
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17 May 2020
Two Unicorn Glen Garioch Vintage 1958 Distilled on the Same Day Going Head to Head at 46 and 60 Years of Age
There are few things that get a whisky aficionado’s blood pumping like the opportunity to taste ancient drams from his favorite distillery. It gets even more special when they are both ...
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13 May 2020
Cadenhead’s Glen Garioch 25, Vintage 1991 (47%)
If there is something I could change in the whole whisky industry (other than prices, of course, but after such a long run of a buyer’s market, we can’t really have any other ...
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06 May 2020
Milk and Honey Distillery – M&H Staying Alive in Tel Aviv – COVID -19 Edition (55%)
The 2020 Whisky Live Tel Aviv was scheduled for March and like every other whisky event all over the world, was postponed. This expression was supposed to be the Whisky Live bottling, and once it ...
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04 May 2020
Milk and Honey – M&H Founder’s Edition (57%)
In 2013, plans for a distillery in Tel Aviv were well underway, and the founders of the distillery initiated a brilliant move to gain the distillery some notoriety. Hence, an Indiegogo campaign ...
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03 May 2020
Yerushalmi Distillery First Glimps: New Make and Single Malt in Cask
I love the process of seeing a new distillery get started and make its first steps. When David Zibell stated Golani over five years ago, he had a clear vision of making whisky also in Jerusalem, ...
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05 Apr 2020
Golani Single Malt Unicorn Cask 27 (57.7%)
Every once in a while distilleries get really special casks. They get filled, monitored regularly, and at one point they’re deemed ready to be bottled. Now the question is, what do they do ...
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02 Apr 2020
Golani Black – 5 Year Old (60.4%)
Golani 5 year old! Wow, this is another milestone for Israeli whisky. Indeed, the first Israeli five year old whisky was bottled by David Zibell’s Golani Distillery. This is the second cask ...
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31 Mar 2020
M&H Classic – Milk and Honey Distillery (46%)
Milk and Honey, or rather M&H, is my local Tel Aviv distillery. I’ve tasted the new make a mere days after the distillery started to distill in 2016, and have been regularly tasting the ...
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30 Mar 2020
Bunnahabhain 30, Marsala Finish, Distell Limited Edition 2019 (47.4%)
Like Deanston, Bunnahabhain contributed three expressions to this year’s Limited Editions. There were two expressions from 2007, in Port and in French Brandy, alongside this 30 year old ...
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26 Jan 2020
Bunnahabhain 2007, 11 Year Old French Brandy Finish (52.5%)
This expression is yet another display of the quality of casks Distell’s Burn Stewart Distiller’s is enjoying. This whisky was transferred into these French Brandy casks for two and a ...
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11 Jan 2020
Deanston 21, 1997 Palo Cortado Finish (51.8%)
You’ll recall that last year I tasted the 2018 Limited Edition Bunnahabhain Palo Cortado Finish. That too was a 1997 vintage, presented at 20 years old. Here we have the whisky maturing for ...
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07 Jan 2020
Deanston 2002 Organic Oloroso Cask Finish, 16 Years Old (50.6%)
Following yesterday’s 2006 Fino, we move on to the second of the three Deanston offerings is a 16 year old Organic Oloroso. This isn’t Deanston’s first foray into Organic ...
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