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Auchentoshan, Cask Strength, Featured, Headline, Lowlands, NAS, Tasting Notes »

[18 Nov 2011 | 3 Comments | 385 views]
My Auchentoshan Journey continues : The Valinch

We continue our Toshan odyssey with something more powerful and although young and with NAS , quite the cracker IMHO. The Valinch.
Valinch is the the name of the pipette used to draw whisky straight from the cask, and this one is just that. bottled at cask strength of 57.5% which is a nice change after the rather anemic 12 year …

Featured, Feis Ile, Headline, Islay, Laphroaig, NAS, Peated, Tasting Notes »

[11 Nov 2011 | 3 Comments | 503 views]
Tasting Laphroaig Cairdeas 2011 Ileach Edition

This year’s Feis Ile edition is carries no age statement, and should be fairly young. I’ve tasted the 2009,2010 (see Shai’s excellent guest post about FI 2010) editions and quite liked them, and got a bottle. this year I chose not to as shipping became to much of a hassle. Gladly Johan of WhiskyBlogg.se was kind enough to send …

Featured, Headline, Islands, Jura, NAS, Peated, Tasting Notes »

[1 Sep 2011 | 9 Comments | 357 views]
Tasting Isle of Jura Prophecy

It has been some time since i last tasted a new Jura. Having liked the XU heavy peat, i was looking forward to this one. This wee dram was a part of the samples used in the first ever Google + tasting event with the W&M master blender Richard Paterson (see my post about it, for more info). I knew …

Black Bull, Blended Malts, Blends, Duncan Taylor, Featured, Headline, NAS, Tasting Notes »

[4 Aug 2011 | One Comment | 459 views]
Tasting Black Bull Special Reserve – Batch #1

The Black Bull Special Reserve is the latest addition to the BB family consisting of the 12,30,40 year olds. It has been bottled to celebrate BB 12 year old winning the best scotch blend in the world, 12 years and under at the 2011 World Whisky Awards. As always, BB Special Reserve contains a high ratio of malt to grain …

Ardmore, Headline, Peated, Quick Dram, Speyside, Tasting Notes »

[18 Apr 2011 | 4 Comments | 294 views]
Quick Dram: Ardmore Traditional Cask

I’ve been hearing good things about the Ardmore traditional for some time, and been meaning to give it a try. A peated whisky, out of Islay is always interesting, and this young malt should pack enough oomph, right? and i know that Speyside peated malts are really nice…
The Traditional casks is matured in quarter casks which boost maturation, by offering …

Blends, Diageo, Featured, Headline, Jhonnie Walker, Tasting Notes, Uncategorized, scotch »

[6 Apr 2011 | 3 Comments | 6,718 views]
Tasting Johnnie Walker Double Black (finally…)

My first JW tasting notes on the blog. I was really looking for this one, not because i am a JW man, or that this one got amazing reviews. Nope. The reason for that is that JW double black was, and is the most searched term on the blog, and my previous post about its introduction into the market is …

Caol Ila, Featured, Headline, Islay, NAS, Tasting Notes »

[25 Mar 2011 | 10 Comments | 529 views]
Tasting the new Caol Ila ‘Moch’

It was only a question of time until  Diageo’s turn to hop on the NAS bandwagon, and release an expression with a nice Gaelic sound to it, wasn’t it? So, it’s here, the new Caol Ila ‘Moch’ (meaning: dawn in Gaelic).
It’s not everyday that Caol Ila releases a new OB and this one got good reviews from bloggers and whisky …

Featured, Headline, Kavalan, NAS, Taiwan, Tasting Notes »

[17 Feb 2011 | 7 Comments | 313 views]
Tasting Kavalan “King Car”

Tasting four Kavalan expressions in the past months (Kavalan,Concert Master, Single Cask ‘Solist’ Ex-bourbon, and Single Cask ‘Solist’ Ex-sherry ) left me wanting more. i was utterly impressed with the sheer quality, and innovative spirit of Kavalan and their head distiller Ian Chang. I was hoping more new expressions will be released, and having heard some rumours about two new …

Featured, Glenfiddich, Headline, Highlands, NAS, Tasting Notes »

[8 Feb 2011 | 5 Comments | 1,263 views]
Tasting Glenfiddich Snow Phoenix

There is a saying that goes “If life hands you lemons, Make Lemonade”. this sums up really good what Glenfiddich just did! First the story: The winter of 2009 was really hard, and a lot of snow fell down. On Thursday Jan 7th , in the most remote part of the snow covered distillery, some of  the warehouse roofs collapsed, …

Featured, FetterCairn, Headline, Highlands, NAS, Tasting Notes, Whyte & Mackay, scotch »

[20 Jan 2011 | 2 Comments | 662 views]
Tasting Fettercairn ‘Fior’

I have to admit, this is my first Fettercairn ever. So i came to review it without any prejudice. But, Not long ago, the Fettercairn entry level bottlings were lacking style and from the reviews i read, they were also not too thrilling. This was changed last year when Whyte & Mackay who owns the distillery, decided to do a …