Jericho Classic Selection, NAS, 43 % Today we present the fourth installment in the new Classic Selection range from The Lost Distillery Company. The Jericho Distillery was a Highland distillery, near the town of Insch in Aberdeenshire. It was established in 1822, started production in 1824, and finally closed in 1913. It was renamed the Benachie […]...

Connemara 22 YO, 46 % Connemara is one of the brands produced at Cooley Distillery, owned by the Kilbeggan Distilling Company. It is not very often we get our hands on Irish whiskey here at Whisky Saga HQ, and especially such old whiskey as this one. Cooley Distillery started production in 1987, making this whiskey […]...

Signatory Vintage bought a whole series of casks filled with Glenburgie 1995 , all in the #644x – #647x range. We’ve seen at least 10 bottlings in the Vintage Collection and Un-Chillfiltered ranges and some casks have found their ways to other bottlers.

Asta Morris picked cask #6475 from the Signatory warehouses, bottled in the typical Ibisco decanter.

Glenburgie 19 yo 1995 (50,5%, Signatory Vintage for Asta Morris 2015, hogshead #6475, 287 btl.)

Nose: malty, seemingly naked at first, but it develops a very nice fruitiness. Yellow plums, peaches, tarte tine, golden raisins and a hint of pineapple....

Box Whisky The Explorer, 3 YO, 48,3 % This release has been announced for some time. The Box Whisky The Explorer is the third installment in the Early Days Collection. The first two releases were The Pioneer and The Challenger. The fourth and last release in the series is due in december 2015 and will […]...

Black Bull 40 YO Batch no 2, 41,9 % I visited Dr. Jekylls Pub in Oslo with my husband a couple of weeks ago. I wanted to taste something different from single malts, which I (too) often choose. I took a look on the shelf and spotted a Black Bull 40 YO. Black Bull is […]...

Bowmore Gold Reef is a travel retail expression, launched alongside Bowmore Black Rock and White Sands. It’s a No Age Statement whisky that was matured predominantly in first fill ex-bourbon casks.

Bowmore Gold Reef (43%, OB 2014, travel retail)

Nose: quite a coastal expression, with dried seaweed and a sea breeze. Salted butter. Peat and a hint of antiseptic. A fresh and fruity base, mainly lemon and oranges, even peaches if you dig a little deeper. Mouth: smoky and oily, with some pretty sharp peat and a gingery heat. Chalky and zesty notes. A little salt. There’s also...

A fifth release for Liquid Art already. The artist on duty is Chreet Dexters , father of the founding member Bert. He will provide three labels under the theme Distilling is an art .

Glentauchers 1996 (51,9%, Liquid Art ‘Distilling is an art’ 2014, 131 btl.)

Nose: a very fruity profile: liquid jelly beans. I commented on another Glentauchers 1996 “something in between tropical bubblegum and fruity rum” and I still think it’s appropriate. This one is even more tropical. Redcurrant, mango, bananas, ripe apples, tinned pineapple. Soft vanilla. Just a whiff of oak polish and beeswax, as...

Almost two years ago there was a big earthquake here. Well, not a real physical earthquake as you maj think but for the local alcohol and whisky scene it was an earthquake of magnitude 9 – the tax scheme on alcohol changed and with it, the doors for larger base of whisky and single Maltwhisky drinkers got opened wide.

And just like mushrooms after the rain, new web shops selling single malts were born, whisky clubs were founded and whatddoyouknow – a few distilleries were founded as well! Some are already working and some are still in newborn steps, going forward...

Ardbeg Perpetuum – Ardbeg Day, NAS, 47,4 % It does seem a bit unneccessary to create this much confusion over a whisky (or two whiskies, as it turned out). Ardbeg really did confuse matters a bit around the Ardbeg Perpetuum. At first there was just the Ardbeg Perpetuum released in the distillery shop when we […]...

Not so long ago we reviewed Aberlour a’bunadh Batch 49 and today we place it against the latest Batch 50 .

Aberlour a’bunadh (59,6%, OB 2014, Oloroso sherry butts, batch n°50)

Nose: thick sherry, dried figs and dates, sultanas. majbe just a tad more closed than batch #49, with seemingly a bit more oaky touches. Waxed oak. Water opens it up a little. Chocolate and leather as well as some Seville oranges. Mouth: very big again – hot and flavoursome. Hints of cherries, rapsberry jam, nuts and nougat. Then dark caramel and coffee. Again a bit more oak...

Oh, I was supposed to be off today without reviews, but I forgot to post a second Ardbeg review yesterday (along with the Ardbeg Auriverdes ) to celebrate the bicentenary of Ardbeg distillery. Therefor here’s a review of the Supernova 2014 I tasted last night to celebrate Ardbeg Day along with my friend Yori.

So Supernova 2014… It’s the third supernova release (following the very successful 2009 and 2010 releases) to celebrate the return to earth of a an ardbeg spirit that spent a couple of years in space. In short, just a marketing gimmick to release another whisky to...