Archive For June 17, 2014
The Glenfarclas distillery is one of a kind. This is a family owned distillery, owned by the Grant family since 1865. This distillery is exteremely traditional in its approach to whisky making. On one hand, that creates a very consistent line of whiskys. On the other hand, most will find the one expression they favor…
While reviewing the Oak Cross vatted malt expression by Compass Box, I talked about the toasted cask ends from Sessile Oak used by the Compass Box. Originally, John Glaser used internal staves to line the inner surface of the barrels. The SWA declared this technique to be illegal, and Spice Tree was pulled from the…
I came out of my first tasting of this whisky, which was last in a lineup which included the Glenlivet Archive 21, Glenfiddich Gran Reserva 21, Glenfarclas 21, Jura 21, White & MacKay 30, The Balvenie PortWood 21 and this expression, without really feeling I got to the bottom of this dram. Thus, I arranged a second tasting…
The Balvenie is the whisky geeks’ connection with the Grant company family of distilleries. There’s a chance we’d connect even more with Kininvie, but I don’t know anybody who actually had a 700 ml bottle in their collection, although there must be some of them out there. I did taste some in a Grant’s blending masterclass…
The Port Ellen distillery needs no introductions. This distillery was mothballed in the 1983 wave of distillery closing by the company now known as Diageo, in response to a serious decline in demand for whisky world over. As the whisky produced at Port Ellen was never sold as a single malt, and was only used for…