Archive For January 4, 2015
This post is a special one, as the Whisky Gospel Blog and Malt and Oak are combining for a cross blog review today. What is a cross blog review? Well, we got together to taste this bottle (well, 50 ml. miniature bottle) of Port Ellen 27, and we’re both publishing our reviews on the…
Keeping in line with the Broras from the first two days of the year, we now turn to the first of two Port Ellen whiskys, a 25 year old today and a 27 year old in the next post. Another casualty of United Distillers (Diageo’s) 1983 mass closing of distilleries, Port Ellen remained obscure until 1998,…
Truth be told, Brora was never meant to be anything more than a stopgap for DCL (the heart of today’s Diageo), to produce peated whisky for Johnny Walker due to a drought on Islay in 1968 causing Port Ellen to run dry. Thus, to alley fears that peated whisky production would fall short by some…
Last night was one for friends, family and drams. Starting off the year with a bang, we’ll take this weekend to review some really special drams, then return to the independent bottler’s Laphroaig series. Before becoming Diageo, United Distillers launched the Rare Malts Selection (RMS) in 1995. Bottlings under this series went on for 10 years,…