Archive For July 30, 2015

A Glengoyne Special Edition – In a Rum Cask

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A Glengoyne Special Edition – In a Rum Cask

From time to time, you can find a one off special bottling, being either a special cask or a finish, coming from the distillery. Today’s expression is just one of those, from Glengoyne and tomorrow we’ll taste a special 10 year old Aberlour, finished in a sherry cask. This expression is a 10 year old (May…

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The Bygone Glengoyne

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The Bygone Glengoyne

It’s been almost three years since Glengoyne has totally revamped the middle of its lineup. Until fall of 2012, the lineup was 10 (review), 12 (review), Cask Strength 12 (here), 17 and 21 (here) year olds. In 2012, the 17 year old was discontinued, replaced by an 18 year old (see review), the Cask Strength 12 went…

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Springbank and Jamaican Rum…A Match Made in Heaven

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Springbank and Jamaican Rum…A Match Made in Heaven

The cage at the Cadenhead’s shop in Campbeltown holds endless wonders, many of them single barrels bottled for sale at the shop or held in a cask to bottle your own cask. My friend Yori has two bottles of Jamaican rum matured Springbank. The first is a Springbank matured in a Jamaican rum barrel and the…

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Did You Get to Choose A Single Cask Springbank to be Bottled for Your 18th Birthday?

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Did You Get to Choose A Single Cask Springbank to be Bottled for Your 18th Birthday?

Potstill is Vienna’s premier whisky shop, and to celebrate owner Mario Prinz’s daughter Briana’s 18th birthday the shop bottled a single barrel bottling of a lovely 17 year old Springbank which Briana herself chose. The bottle was distilled in her birth year and bottled before her birthday from a refill sherry cask. This isn’t a…

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Springbank and Port…You Can’t Really Go Wrong!

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Springbank and Port…You Can’t Really Go Wrong!

Springbank’s craft approach to making whisky is legendary. Some of the expressions coming out of the distillery are downright fabulous. Besides the excellent core expressions (with a special mention given to the 12 Year Old Cask Strength and the phenomenal 15 Year Old), there is the fascinating Wood Expressions series where the spirit is matured…

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