Articles in the Travel Retail Category
Headline, Jura, NAS, Tasting Notes, Travel Retail »
This new expression was featured in last week’s whisky news, and now it’s time for my tasting notes, with the help of the whisky fairy (which was quite quick this time – hooray!) i was able to get a cheeky little sample and try it last night. basically it’s a NAS bottled at 42% (not 43% but 42%…) and no …
Blends, Headline, Jhonnie Walker, Tasting Notes, Travel Retail »
My beloved whisky geeks, this is a blend. Yes, i know. It’s not a single cask from a long gone Japanese distillery, or bottled at cask strength after being matured in an obscure wine cask touched by the queen of Sheba, but I bet more people will ever be drinking this whisky than any of the past 20 I have …
AnCnoc, Headline, Tasting Notes, Travel Retail »
This sample arrived very late (thank you Royal mail, and Israeli mail, you suck!) and too late for an online Facebook tasting session in which both this travel retail and the batch #2 of the ‘regular’ Arkle anCnoc (see my earlier notes here) were to be tasted. As we say better later then never… This Travel Retail only version was …
Featured, Headline, Highlands, Old Pulteney, Tasting Notes, Travel Retail »
A long time passed since the last OP I reviewed (almost exactly the same time last year) the Row to the pole. And here is another Duty free only OP, this time named after another wick ship: the WK 217 ‘Spectrum’.The inspiration for the last installment came from WK217 ‘Spectrum’. She was built in 1920 and went down in local …
Featured, Headline, Laphroaig, PX, Peated, Travel Retail »
After the success of the Triple wood , and it’s migration to the general retail sector from travel retail, Laphraoig introduces another retail exclusive this time finished in PX sherry casks rather the Oloroso casks (as in the triple wood). PX being a much thicker and sweeter sherry, is sure to impart sweeter notes to the liquid. The triple wood …
Cask Strength, Featured, Headline, Islay, Travel Retail, bowmore »
Originally produced for the Travel Retail market (duty free shops) this is a cask strength NCF Bowmore NAS, and comes in a 1 Litre bottle. I’m not a Huge Bowmore fan but I do think they are really trying to make better whiskies in recent 1-2 years, and we definitely can see a change there, which is great news for …
Duty Free, Featured, Grant's, Travel Retail »
If you are passing through CDG airport in Paris,France soon? You are? lucky devils!
Besides some very interesting Travel retail only editions you can find there, William Grant & Sons (Maker’s of Grant’s blended whisky) have set up an exclusive brand store, at the CDG, Terminal 2 , only this February.
The shop was placed there because “William Grant & Sons has …
