Posts Tagged “Highlands”
I’ve had several Old Pulteneny’s outside the core range, but the heart of the distillery, its seaside fishing village DNA, comes through in the core range which consists of the 12, 17, 21 and the relatively new 35, which I recently tasted at The Whisky Show. In my review of the Old Pulteney 21, I…
After completing my reports on the three days of TWE’s Whisky Show (Day 1, Day 2 and Day 3), I turn to the show exclusives. You’d think the highlight of those would be the two Karuizawa releases by ONE, but they’re not. It’s actually this Balblair that came of of nowhere. There were 588 bottles…
We continue our trip down peat vatting lane with the Compass Box Peat Monster. At the heart of Peat Monster beats Caol Ila with another unnamed Islay single malt from a south shore distillery. The south shore has Ardbeg, Laphroaig and Lagavulin, and if I had to bet, I’d put my money on Lagavulin simply because…
With peat being so highly fashionable these days, Highland peat is quite the rage. Ardmore has been doing it for ages, but Glenglassaugh have added the Torfa (as have some Speysiders like Knockdhu’s AnCnoc Rutter, Flaughter and Tushkar as well as BenRiach’s Extensive line of peated whisky) and the Tomatin’s Cù Bòcan line has been rather successful….
like the BenRiach company. I enjoy supporting independent distillers, and GlenDronach is very high on my list of favorite distilleries. So I was happy to learn last year that Billy Walker’s BenRiach took over the distillery to take it to the next level. Obviously, all the whisky sold now is pre-walker times, but since last…