Posts Tagged “One Quick Dram”
I love going to tastings I don’t host. Seriously. It’s fun to hear other people talking about whisky, and especially when the lineup includes whiskys not available here. One of the whisky shops that regularly brings bottles not imported into the local market is Wines and Flavors, and they held a Springbank tasting the other…
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….
Continuing my quest for an in depth study on vatted malts (officially dubbed “malt blends”), I had the Douglas Laing Double Barrel Caol Ila and Tamdhu vatting. As noted previously in my review of the Ardbeg & Altmore vatting, these are two single barrels of very different whiskys, vatted together to highlight the unique attributes of…
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…