Posts Tagged “Peat”

One Quick Dram: Ardbeg Supernova Whisky Tasting Notes

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One Quick Dram: Ardbeg Supernova Whisky Tasting Notes

  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…

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One Quick Dram: SMWS 93.43 Glen Scotia 11 Years Old Whisky Tasting Notes

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One Quick Dram: SMWS 93.43 Glen Scotia 11 Years Old Whisky Tasting Notes

Another beauty in our cask strength event, this Glen Scotia  single barrel from the Scotch Malt Whisky Society was brought by Shai Gilboa to the Malt Mongers’ meeting in Tel Aviv. This is a very interesting expression as it seems to have one leg on land and the other in the ocean, with the addition of…

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The Port Ellen Phenomenon and a Tasting of the 26 Years Old Malt Cask

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The Port Ellen Phenomenon and a Tasting of the 26 Years Old Malt Cask

The Port Ellen distillery needs no introductions. This distillery was mothballed in the 1983 wave of distillery closing by the company now known as Diageo, in response to a serious decline in demand for whisky world over. As the whisky produced at Port Ellen was never sold as a single malt, and was only used for…

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One Quick Dram: Caol Ila Natural Cask Strength

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One Quick Dram: Caol Ila Natural Cask Strength

This is a Diageo gem. It’s 58% ABV but really doesn’t need water at all. In general, I think that this distillery does not rise to its full potential, part of it is because this is the main provider of peated whisky to the Diageo blends and part of it is that it seems that…

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One Quick Dram: van Wees The Ultimate 13 Year Laphroaig Cask Strength – Cask

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One Quick Dram: van Wees The Ultimate 13 Year Laphroaig Cask Strength – Cask

Sherry cask matured Laphoraig at cask strength aged 13 years and 11 months (couldn’t you have waited 3 weeks?). This is one cracking dram and is a real gem that separeates the type of stuff Indies bring to the market vis-a-vis the official bottlings, especially looking at the new plethora of NAS and, sadly, with the…

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