My Auchentoshan Journey continues : The Valinch November 18, 2011November 21, 2011Gal Granov 4 We continue our Toshan odyssey with something more powerful and although young and with NAS , quite the cracker IMHO. The Valinch. Valinch is the […]
New Release – Tasting the Balvenie Tun 1401 Batch #2 October 4, 2011October 10, 2011Gal Granov 1 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 […]
Master of Malt Cragganmore 20 Year Old 1991 – Single Cask , (274 btl.) September 26, 2011September 27, 2011Gal Granov 1 Distilled on the 8th March 1991 and bottled in March 2011, this is a refill hoggshead , with an outturn of 274 bottles. Non-chillfiltered, with […]
Tasting The Master of Malt Dalmore 1996 14-year-old Single Cask August 26, 2011August 26, 2011Gal Granov 2 Another of MoM’s new single cask bottling at a good price, this time from the Dalmore distillery. A refill Hoggy took care of this dram […]
Tasting Kintra Tamdhu 20 yo single cask August 23, 2011August 23, 2011Gal Granov 0 The Second Kintra I recently got hold of (a sample, sadly) is this Tamdhu 20 yo. Sherry cask as well, but what a whisky. All […]
Tasting SMWS G6.1- Port Dundas 28 yo ‘Spicy Cologne’ June 7, 2011June 9, 2011Gal Granov 1 Port Dundas is not a well known distillery, and lacks prestige as one of diageo’s grain producing distilleries. It’s located not far from Glasgow, and […]
Tasting SMWS 31.18 – Jura 20 yo – ‘Manly, masculine dram’ May 25, 2011May 29, 2011Gal Granov 0 Taking a short break from the Kintra Single Casks (One to go), and back to the well known line of SMWS. This time it’s a […]
Some smoke – Kintra – Coal Ila 1984 25 yo Single Cask May 20, 2011May 22, 2011Gal Granov 0 This is the first Kintra bottling tasting note, with more to follow. This one was distilled in 1984, Aged in an Ex-Bourbon Hogshead , Cask […]
Tasting The Cask of Yamazaki 1993/2008 Single Cask April 13, 2011April 17, 2011Gal Granov 6 It’s very sad watching the state of affairs in Japan post the big earthquake. Being a fan of Yamazaki (and having tasted and reviewed at […]
Tasting SpringBank ‘Jazz Edition’ March 27, 2011March 29, 2011Gal Granov 5 Now it’s official. Springbank is coming to Israel.(it was available in the duty free shops,but now will be widely available). While i am sure the […]