Posts Tagged “Islay”
After three years away from the London Whisky Show, (2019 due to a scheduling conflict with the Rosh HaShana, and then COVID) I have at last returned to the Show. From being the only Israeli visitor to the show in 2014-2016, this year’s participation has gone to a couple of dozen Israelis, in part because…
Kilchoman is one of a growing number of distilleries who do not sell casks for independent bottlers, and keep the bottling of all casks within the distillery. Nevertheless, Kilchoman is happy to do private bottlings, so long as they’re bottled by them. For many distilleries, single casks are the way to get the interesting stuff….
Funny how chance sometimes leads you to pour part of a mini some friends made sure you’d get to taste, and as you nose it you take note of the fact that the 56th distillation anniversary is just a couple of days away (and is today!)…. This is one of those drams that will actually…
If there’s one whisky book I diligently make sure I have, it’s Ingvar Ronde’s Malt Whisky Yearbook. When the book landed in my mailbox, delayed as usual because of the Israeli Postal Service, the first place I turned to was the perennially excellent The Year That Was section (on page 260). To me, this section…
Like Deanston, Bunnahabhain contributed three expressions to this year’s Limited Editions. There were two expressions from 2007, in Port and in French Brandy, alongside this 30 year old expression finished in ex-Marsala hogsheads for three years before being bottled in the 2019 limited edition. Bunnahabhain 30, Vintage 1988, Marsala Finish, Distell Limited Edition 2019,…