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Hielander Whisky Festival 2013

The whisky festival in Alkmaar, hosted by Wullie MacMorland of The Hielander Scottish Restaurant is usually the first official whisky event of the year. This year it is no different. Funnily enough I go there every year with different people. … Continue reading

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Glen Keith 21 – James MacArthur’s

I got this sample of a recent whisky auction. It got my attention because it wasn’t overly expensive, 21 years old, distilled in 1969! So, the sample bottle has been around for 21 years as well. I love old style … Continue reading

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Whisky Fair Limburg (2/2)

Yesterday was for the general impression of the Whisky Fair, today will be about some of the whiskies we had there. We made sure to taste a mix of new and old releases, since it’s all nice to taste something … Continue reading

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Glen Keith 1970 – Malts of Scotland

Glen Keith is one of those distilleries from which you barely hear anything, and then all of a sudden every other bottler has (in this case) a 1970 bottling out. It happened with Ardmore 18, Tamdhu 19 and 20, Lochside … Continue reading

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Bottle-Share #5: Malts of Scotland

The time is right for another bottle-share, or at least, that’s my opinion! After some deliberation I chose to do one with ‘Malts of Scotland‘ bottlings. Its an independent bottler mainly active in Belgium and therefore rather hard to get … Continue reading

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The Whisky Agency Bottle Share

Well, 6 tasting notes in, you’d expect the final one now. ‘Not gonna happen!’ It seems in my eagerness to taste the last one I finished the sample without taking notes, so this will be the summarizing post already. Bummer. … Continue reading

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Glen Keith 40 – TWA

Recently I participated in a Bottle-Share by whisky lovers from Belgium. They host their stuff at http://www.gedeeldevreugde.be. This time the theme was to taste different varieties of The Whisky Agency. This is a very up-and-coming bottler from Germany that is … Continue reading

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