I was supposed to attend a ‘super tasting’ with three whiskies from Brora and three whiskies from Port Ellen recently. A business trip prevented me from attending, but through the help of good friends I was still able to get a set of samples of the whiskies. I subsequently held my own little half-blind tasting […]...

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Johnnie Walker The Spice Road, NAS, 40 % Again: Yesterday Wolford and whisky confirmed they are the perfect combination for a Lady! Going straight from the Wolford pre sale to a meeting in The Ladies’ Share turned out to be a great evening. To this meeting I brought a birthday gift from a girlfriend. (By […]...

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Another in our occasional series of Tweet-style interviews. As always, it’s 140 characters or less (we don’t count the spaces) in the answers from Laphroaig distillery manager John Campbell. (This was a special one for me, as the brand’s former marketing manager from some years ago.)  

What’s the view from your office window?
I have a great view, looking out over Laphroaig bay and it’s a beautiful day today on Islay.

Lucky you. We know you can get all 4 seasons in one day! Did you always want to be a distiller?
Yes, we can have variable weather, and...

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Ardbeg Kildalton, NAS, 46 % A couple of days ago the Glenmorangie Company (owners of Ardbeg Distillery) announced a new partnership with the North Highland Initiative (NHI). The NHI is a charity that supports fragile, rural communities across the North Highlands in Scotland. To help raise funds for this charity, Ardbeg Distillery is introducing a New […]...

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Abbey Whisky is a Scottish whisky retailer founded in 2008. They focus on rare, collectable and old whisky and they’re also working on two series of own bottlings: The Rare Casks (with limited edition single malts) and The Secret Casks (a trio of undisclosed 30yo, 40yo and 50yo Speyside whiskies).

One of their latest releases is this Glencadam 1991 .

Glencadam 22 yo 1991
(55,3%, Abbey Whisky ‘The Rare Casks’ 2014, refill bourbon cask, 96 btl.)

Nose: very fruity and aromatic. Lots of meadow flowers. Barley sugars and juicy plums. Frosted cereals, warm vanilla, with hints of marshmallows, but...

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Ardbeg Corryvreckan – Committee Release, NAS, 57,1% Here iss my second review from the Ardbeg Day tasting at The Tasting Room in Bergen. The Corryvreckan was released back in 2008, and the committee release version now sells online at “ye-gads!” kind of prices. The “non-committee” version though, is available at Vinmonopolet for a more reasonable NOK 826. […]...

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The 2014 World Cup is finally ready (even if the stadiums aren’t), so with this fantastic feast of football to look forward to, here are the teams to watch. And if you can’t decide who to follow, then why not go for the team that matches your taste in whisky?

The Seleção Brasileira are gunning for World Cup glory on home soil

Brazil
Everyone’s second-favourite team, Brazil are strongly tipped to add to their tally of five World Cups, thanks to Neymar (one of the hottest talents around at the moment), although the pressure on them from the home crowd...

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Mortlach  is a distillery that I can’t really get to grips with. Differences between ages, casks and profiles tend to be big, which makes it difficult to say “I like Mortlach” or “I don’t like Mortlach”.

I don’t like the heavy, meaty, sometimes sulphury sherry matured Mortlach, but recent ex-bourbon releases are much brighter and more to my liking. Let’s see what this Mortlach 1996 from Sansibar whisky is like.

Mortlach 18 yo 1996 (51,2%, Sansibar 2014, bourbon cask, 186 btl.)

Nose: rich and sweet. Lots of juicy gooseberries, apples and orange peel. Also a nice (cooked) banana...

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Ardbeg Rollercoaster, NAS, 57,3 % I really like Ardbeg! I have enjoyed every single one of them I have tasted so far. Except…you majbe remember my review of Ardbeg Blasda? Well, I tasted it again a couple of weeks ago, together with food. The experience was different then, so I maj have to adjust my score. […]...

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Diageo still doesn’t have a name for its new Shelby County distillery, but the liquor giant somewhat revealed its American whiskey strategies at a public gathering at the Shelbyville Country Club on juni 10.

Diageo officials said they’re investigating the possibilities of moving its Stitzel-Weller stills from Shively to the new location. These stills have not been used since the early 1990s, but produced some of the greatest bourbon ever made. Meanwhile, Diageo has tapped Vendome to build a 60-foot-tall column still, and Fluor Engineering to construct single story warehouses, which will be 27 feet tall and 55,000 square feet,...

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