Archive For The “Official Bottling” Category
Like many of us whisky aficionados, I’m a bit of a sucker for tradition. There’s something about floor maltings, hand written “computer” distilling logs and manual temperature controls that just sets our imaginations wild. I’ll dedicate the next week or so to a sampling of Springbank whiskys, undoubtedly the most traditional of the Scottish distilleries….
I clearly remember my first brush with the Talisker 10. It was brought out in a Johnny Walker Gold, Green and Blue labels tasting I attended, where some of the single malts at the core of the blends were shared too. It was love at first sight with two of those whiskys: Clynelish 14 and…
This expression, the third in AnCnoc’s peated series, is limited to the Swedish market. No official reason was given, but it probably relates to stock size and availability. In any event, Yoav of the Whisky Gospel blog, which is incidentally celebrating it’s first anniversry today (and has a cool giveaway of an 18 year old…
AnCnoc is the official name of the whisky produced by the Knockdhu distillery. The pupose for the name change is the similarity of the distillery name to the Knockando. The distillery has a new line of three peated whiskys, one of which is exclusive to the Swedish market (I have no idea why, but the good news…
As Ardbeg craze goes into high fever with the announcement of the release of the newest release for 2014 Ardbeg Kildalton, I’ll go back to the Supernova for a quick Dram. The Supernova is the most peated expression by Ardbeg, peated to over 100 ppm and is highly popular with the “Ardbeg heads”, with a very…