Mackmyra Ægirs Bior, NAS, 46,1 % Time for another installment in my reviews of Nordic Whisky. The whisky I will be reviewing today is Mackmyra Ægirs Bior. Mackmyra is the oldest whisky distillery in Sweden, and they have put a lot of different expressions on the market over the years. This one is rather special […]...

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Earlier this week, the local Spanish newspaper Diario de Jerez published an article about the sherry casks used in the whisky industry .

It’s clear that the sherry industry, in this case the governing body called the Consejo Regulador , realizes that their casks help to give some whiskies more prestige and help to support the current boom of whisky and brands like Macallan. Distilleries are trying to maximize this profit and are sometimes stretching the boundaries, trying to avoid the very high price of an authentic sherry cask.

What is a sherry cask anyway? In general sherry casks are specially...

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Hanyu 1985 Ichiro’s Malt Ace of Spades, 55,7 % I recently had the opportunity to try a very rare Japanese whisky. At the restaurant Akkurat in Stockholm I came across Hanyu 1985 Ichiro’s Malt Ace of Spades. This whisky was distilled in 1985, and bottled back in 2006. It was matured in a hogshead (cask […]...

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I already mentioned the likeliness of peated anCnoc expressions after I visited the distillery in maj 2012. We even got to try a sample of a batch distilled around 2005 and I was pleasantly surprised by its qualities. In 2012 more than 25% of the distillery production was peated spirit, so we can expect more of this.

Rutter, Flaughter and Tushkar maj seem strange words for outsiders, but they relate to traditional tools used in peat cutting – types of shovels that are also pictured on the labels. Each tool is used to take out a different layers of peat...

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Jeg har nettopp fått bekreftet av vi får en ny whiskyfestival i Norge neste år. Det er primus motor bak Whisky-Meet, Frode Harring, som nå slår til med ny festival. Vi har tidligere meldt at Frode Harring starter egen whiskybar i Bergen. Nå har altså denne ivrige whiskymisjonæren fått det fore å starte ny festival […]...

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Balvenie 17 YO New Wood, 17 år, 40 % I had tasted four Balvenies before Balvenie 17 YO New Wood. My first four Balvenies have a score between 87 and 95. Quite impressive, I think. No doubt, I was ready to taste som more Balvenie! This is what Balvenie says about how Balvenie New Wood […]...

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Let’s try one of the base whiskies again: Auchentoshan 12 Year Old , which replaced the old 10 Year Old as the youngest expression in the core range of this Lowlands distillery (except for the new NAS releases like Auchentoshan American Oak and the many travel retail products).

Auchentoshan 12 yo (40%, OB +/- 2013)

Nose: a slightly dusty nose (a rye kind of dustiness) with leafy notes and walnut or hazelnut husks. Peanut butter. Sugared cereals, light honey and lots of yellow apple. It’s actually quite nice. Mouth: slightly weak entry, too watery and not a lot going...

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Port Ellen 1982 31 YO Old Particular, 51,5 % Here’s another new bottling from Douglas Laing. The whisky tested this time is a rare Port Ellen 1982 31 YO Old Particular. It was distilled in maj 1982, and bottled in augusti 2013. It has been slightly reduced in strength to 51,5 %, which is the […]...

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