Caol Ila 12 YO, 43 % Thank you all for helping The Ladies’ Share decide the tasting order for our meeting last week! We got a lot of suggestions…and they were all different. We had to make the final decision ourselves, which was a good learning experience. I guess a couple of us did not […]...

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For more than 150 years, Le Claire, Iowa had been known primarily for one reason. The picturesque Mississippi River town was the birthplace of Buffalo Bill Cody, and there’s a street named after him…a road, actually: Cody Road. More recently, Le Claire, located just north of Davenport, has become more widely known as the home base for the History Channel’s popular American Pickers series. In just the last couple of years though, another business has become a must-visit destination in this charming small town: Mississippi River Distilling (MRD).

Perched above the river at the eastern edge of town, MRD has...

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Kintra has three new bottlings: a 6 years old Aultmore, a 15 years old Auchentoshan and this Inchgower 1990 . Nice to see they’re going against the flow: these expressions don’t seem to be very popular among bottlers these days.

Inchgower 23 yo 1990 (48,3%, Kintra 2013, bourbon hogshead #6746, 108 btl.)

Nose: starts creamy with hints of almond milk. Or coconut water? Moves towards nougat and soft vanilla. Then green tea with citrus. Overall quite subdued, you need to work in order to get the flavours out. Mouth: creamy and very sweet, as if someone added powder sugar....

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Braunstein 13:1, 8 YO, 46 % The Danish distillery Bryghuset Braunstein has been around for quite some time. For the first few years they were a brewery only, but as we entered the new millennium they started distilling whisky. Braunstein is owned and run by two brothers; Michael Dines Braunstein is the sales manager, and […]...

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Hepburn’s Choice is a new label of the Hunter Laing company. They’re all single cask releases at 46%. There have been one or two batches so far.

The Braeval 2001 we’re trying today was part of the first releases.

Braeval 12 yo 2001 (46%, Hepburn’s Choice 2013, sherry cask, 807 btl.)

Nose: young, fairly malty, with sweet berries and apple. Lemon candy. Creamy notes too, soft white chocolate and almond paste. Nice enough. Mouth: very sweet, with yellow apple and lemon candy again. Modern vanilla notes. Yellow raisins. A peppery note in the background. Finish: medium long, citrusy...

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When Robert Simonson alerted me recently that the makers of WhistlePig rye were finally ready to “come clean” and confirm that the whiskey* they bottle is from Canada, I was skeptical. However, in an article written for the upcoming summer 2014 issue of Whisky Advocate , Simonson quotes WhistlePig’s master distiller, Dave Pickerell, saying that the original WhistlePig came from Canada’s Alberta Distillers (ADL), and that some of it still does.

Here’s some of what that piece will say:

“It’s fairly common knowledge that that’s where we started,” Pickerell said of ADL. “What’s not common knowledge is that’s not where...

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Bowmore 10 YO The Devil’s Casks, 10 år, 56,9 % På The Whisky Bar i Oslo benyttet jeg anledningen til å smake to Bowmore samtidig for å sammenligne. Det var jo helt forskjellige whiskyer; ulik alder og ulik tønnetype, men likevel moro å teste to fra samme destilleri. Jeg startet med Bowmore 10 YO The […]...

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We can’t get enough of these juicy Littlemills. Let’s hope they keep ‘em coming for the next few years. This Littlemill 1989 is part of the latest Liquid Library batch.

Littlemill 24 yo 1989 (50,4%, Liquid Library 2014, refill hogshead, 212 btl.)

Nose: rather great, typical Littlemill, with the classic fruity notes that we expected. Lime, sweet oranges, mango and lots of tangelo. Quite some banana and vanilla as well, nice. Hints of pink marshmallows. Subtle hints of grass and gravel. Mouth: just as fruity, although there’s a bigger minerality and grassiness this time. More classic Lowlands style if...

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Teerenpeli Kaski Distiller’s Choice, NAS, 43 % The second review in my new series covering Nordic whiskies, is the Teerenpeli Kaski Distiller’s Choice. Teerenpeli is a Finnish whisky distillery, and I have been fortunate enough to visit them once. They operate out of the cellar of a restaurant in the town of Lahti. The same […]...

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A Speyside single malt produced at a mystery distillery (there’s reason to believe it is Glenfarclas ) and matured in a Port cask . In fact it is a marriage of two casks, filled in december 1967 and bottled mars 1993.

Undisclosed Speyside 1967 (40%, Gordon & MacPhail 1993, port cask #8921 – 8922)

Nose: pretty aromatic being 40%, slightly vinous but in a nice way. Starts on toffee apples and a lot of red plums. Redcurrant jam, over time also very nice strawberries. Hints of oranges. Mild oak, some dried flowers. Soft raspberry vinegar. Just a hint...

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