As a peat-head, no better start than a peaty blended malt for starting our little Wemyss malts series of tasting notes, right? This is a […]
Tasting the Wemyss malts ‘Peat Chimney’
Month: October 2011
Tasting Wemyss malts
The Wemyss (pronunced : weems) family have had a longstanding passion for malt whisky and their connections with the industry date back to the turn […]
Latest Poll Results : If you could reopen a mothballed or demolished distillery, which one would it be and why?
We asked you a few weeks ago, a very simple question : “If you could reopen a mothballed or demolished distillery, which one would it […]
Tasting Dailuaine 1983 , 27yo Single Cask (Master of Malt)
This one concludes the recent excellent single cask bottlings released by MoM (North British 20 yo,Cragganmore 20 yo,and the somewhat weird Dalmore 14yo) which i […]
Whisky Round Table #17 – Common myths surrounding drinking whisky
Again, it’s time for this month’s whisky round table. This time a classic subject chosen by Neil & Joel of CaskStrength.Net was Common myths surrounding […]
Tasting North British 1991, 20yo Single Grain by Master of Malt
Time for another of Master of Malts latest single casks.This was distilled on the 22nd January 1991, and was aged in a first fill bourbon […]
Tasting Jura 1976 – ‘Feith A’ Chaorainn’
1976. I am one year old. a wee baby, and at the same moment, some lovely spirit is distilled thousands of miles away on the […]
Remembering Steve
I know it’s a whisky blog and not a tech blog, However I’d like to dedicate today’s post to a great man who just passed […]
New Release – Tasting the Balvenie Tun 1401 Batch #2
The Balvenie Tun 1401 is a relatively new release, and is very intriguing since batch #1 was highly acclaimed (Sadly i did not get to […]
A new Amrut–2 Continents Batch #2–tasting notes
The Guys at Amrut Single Malt never cease to surprise, and this new expression is one of their new releases for 2011. Batch #1 was […]