Posts Tagged “Peat”

On Independent Bottling and a Tasting of a Boutique-y Ardbeg

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On Independent Bottling and a Tasting of a Boutique-y Ardbeg

I’ll be tasting That Boutique-y Whisky Company’s Ardbeg batch 4 today, but I’ll talk about the Ardbeg Distillery in another post, in this one I want to mention the independent bottlers and their importance to the whisky industry. Truth be told, Independent Bottlers are an industry curiosity and a relic of times long gone. Obviously, in…

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Ardmore Traditional Cask…A VERY Special Dram (for me)

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Ardmore Traditional Cask…A VERY Special Dram (for me)

This dram is connected directly to my re-submergence into the whisky world, after a de-facto absence of almost two decades. I grew up around whisky.  In fact, my grandfather bought a bottle of Dimple in 1948 during my grandmother’s pregnancy for the toast at the ‘bris’ – the circumcision ceremony – of his firstborn son….

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