Posts Tagged “One Quick Dram”
Celp is a fun whisky. You can’t actually call it scotch whisky, because it has an branch of seaweed inside the bottle, and is aptly named “the seaweed experience” and thus holds the moniker “Single Malt Islay Spirit”. It’s thought to be either a young Laphroaig or a young Lagavulin, bottled by The Ultimate Whisky Company,…
I reviewed the Glengoyne 10 on this blog in the (very popular) post on still shapes and distillation speed, mentioning the effect of the slow distillation process on the Glengoyne new make and finished spirit. You can reach that post here. This expression is part of a popular class of mass market sherry bomb cask…
Imperial (of Glenlivet) was a Speyside distillery opened in 1897 by the owner of Talisker and Dailuaine, Thomas Mackenzie. Named Imperial to denote Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee on the throne and became operational just in time for the Pattison’s of Leith crash which caused a wide recession in the whisky industry, prompting its closure for over…
The Glenlivet is a distillery that needs no introduction. This particular expression is interesting because it’s just past half the Nadurra’s maturity, and thus can give us a nice comparison point of reference. I want to thank Yoav of the Whisky Gospel blog for sharing this dram with me. With no further ado, my tasting…
In a previous post on Sauternes finishes I wrote that since Sauternes casks are so expensive, we rarely see sauternes matured whiskys, and there are but a few Sauternes finished whiskys around. For a recent Sauternes themed meeting of the Malt Mongers – Israel Club held in July, we had two pairs of old vs….