Whisky Cocktails have been quite popular in the whisky blogosphere lately. Quite a few debates going about whether we like, or think of them as Sacrilege. Oliver of Dramming posted a Poll regarding this the same day the Whisky Round table 15 dealing with this was about to go online (he did not know about this..). Recently the MOM blog …

It seems time flies so fast, from the #13 chapter of our whisky knights gathering… This month our host is Josh of the Jewish Single Malt Whisky Society (And blog). He posted a very interesting question, i guess every whisky blogger / fan had invested a few minutes/hours/months thinking about :
Whisky ratings.  We all rate whisky and we all do …

So, A snow phoenix for €150?
Yes, that could be the price (and much more) for such a bottle sold in Israel. As it happens, the Israeli Importer of Glenfiddich had been allocated 60 bottles for the entire country, 15 of which were broken on the way to Israel (talk about rough seas, eh?). So what does the importer do? He …

We meet again, and this time a cracking question that will no doubt keep on being asked again, again and again.
just to remind you the knights are:
Chris – Nonjatta
Keith – Whisky Emporium
Karen & Matt – Whisky For Everyone
Ruben – Whisky Notes
Mark – Glasgow’s Whisky (And Ale)
Neil & Joel – Caskstrength.net
Lucas & Chris – Edinburgh Whisky Blog
Jason – Guid Scotch Drink
Gal …

this month our host is Chris Bunting from the excellent “Nonjatta” blog, which is THE blog for Japanese whisky. Chris is a journalist and writer based in Japan , and recently published an excellent book name  “Drinking Japan” which deals with the drinking culture, and drinking options and venues in Japan. A real source of information.
joining Chris are the …

This month’s Round Table arrives finally to Israel, and we’re pleased to have all the fellow knights aboard.  April is my Birth month, so i am delighted to be the host on this special month . The single cask issues is really something that interests me, and this is why i chose this as the topic. All the knights …

Is it March already? wow, time flies.
This month the whisky knights are the guest of the Edinburgh whisky blog by the lovely fellows : Lukasz and Chris. They did come up with a very provoking question an issue we all are very involved in: Whisky packaging.
here it goes:
This month we would like to ask you about something which is not …

On part 2 of the conclusion of my Cream of the Barley archaeology set of post, I mentioned that I have also sent samples of both new and old blends to the one and only Mr Richard Paterson, Whyte&Mackay’s master blender, and that due to a very busy backlog, he was not able to send us his take on the …

February has arrived and it’s again time for the whisky round table knights to convene and discuss some important whisky matters!
This month our noble hosts are Matt & Karen from the well known ‘Whisky for everyone” site, and blog. they have chosen a rather interesting question for us to think about and answer:
“What is your whisky ‘dirty little secret’? That’s …

Welcome back to my archaeology dig of one scotch whisky blend history. I hope you enjoyed part 1 of this conclusion. As I promised in it, in this post I will share the different opinions about the two versions of the blend as I got them from my whisky friends around the world, and also include my own 2 cents …